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idevicesyslog(1) General Commands Manual idevicesyslog(1)

NAME

idevicesyslog - Relay syslog of a connected device.

SYNOPSIS

idevicesyslog [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

Relay syslog of a connected device.

OPTIONS

target specific device by UDID
connect to network device
exit when device disconnects
enable communication debugging
prints usage information
prints version information.
disable colored output

FILTER OPTIONS

only print messages that contain STRING

This option will set a filter to only printed log messages that contain the given string.

start logging when matching STRING

When specified, logging will start as soon as a log messages is encountered that contains the given string. See also -T, --untrigger. Other filters are still applied but obviously filtered messages are only printed after logging has started.

stop logging when matching STRING

When specified logging will halt as soon as a log message is encountered that contains the given string. See also -t, --trigger. Other filters are still applied but obviously filtered messages are only printed before logging stops.

NOTE: If no --trigger is given, idevicesyslog will exit after a matching log message was encountered.

only print messages from matching process(es)

PROCESS is a string that can either be a numeric pid or a process name. It also supports multiple process names or pids in one string, separated by | (make sure to use quotes!).

print all messages except matching process(es)

PROCESS is a string that can either be a numeric pid or a process name. It also supports multiple process names or pids in one string, separated by | (make sure to use quotes!).

set a filter to exclude common noisy processes

Since the syslog can be quite noisy, this quick command line switch allows to silence out a predefined set of commonly known processes. The list of processes that are silenced can be retrieved with --quiet-list.

prints the list of processes for --quiet and exits
only print kernel messages

This is actually equivalent to passing --process kernel with the exception that it can be used with --quiet to silence out the noisy process but still get all the kernel log messages.

suppress kernel messages

This is equivalent to passing --exclude kernel.

EXAMPLES

Relay syslog of device with UDID 00008030-0000111ABC000DEF.
Relay syslog of device and exit when the device is unplugged.
Only print log messages that contain the string #### and do NOT originate from identityservicesd or the kernel.
Only print log messages from the process named 'MyApp' and 'ReportCrash'.
Same as previous example with different syntax.
Suppress log messages from backboardd, CommCenter, and mDNSResponder.
Suppress log messages from common noisy processes, but DO print kernel log messages.
Suppress log messages from kernel, but print everything else
Start logging when the device turns on backlight and stop logging when it turns backlight off, and suppress noisy processes

AUTHORS

Nikias Bassen, Martin Szulecki

Man page written to conform with Debian by Julien Lavergne.

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