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SD-DAEMON(3) sd-daemon SD-DAEMON(3)
NAME top
sd-daemon, SD_EMERG, SD_ALERT, SD_CRIT, SD_ERR, SD_WARNING,
SD_NOTICE, SD_INFO, SD_DEBUG - APIs for new-style daemons
SYNOPSIS top
**#include <systemd/sd-daemon.h>**
**pkg-config --cflags --libs libsystemd**
DESCRIPTION top
sd-daemon.h is part of [libsystemd(3)](../man3/libsystemd.3.html) and provides APIs for
new-style daemons, as implemented by the [systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html) service
manager.
See [sd_listen_fds(3)](../man3/sd%5Flisten%5Ffds.3.html), [sd_notify(3)](../man3/sd%5Fnotify.3.html), [sd_booted(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbooted.3.html), [sd_is_fifo(3)](../man3/sd%5Fis%5Ffifo.3.html),
[sd_watchdog_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fwatchdog%5Fenabled.3.html) for more information about the functions
implemented. In addition to these functions, a couple of logging
prefixes are defined as macros:
#define SD_EMERG "<0>" /* system is unusable */
#define SD_ALERT "<1>" /* action must be taken immediately */
#define SD_CRIT "<2>" /* critical conditions */
#define SD_ERR "<3>" /* error conditions */
#define SD_WARNING "<4>" /* warning conditions */
#define SD_NOTICE "<5>" /* normal but significant condition */
#define SD_INFO "<6>" /* informational */
#define SD_DEBUG "<7>" /* debug-level messages */
These prefixes are intended to be used in conjunction with
stderr-based logging (or stdout-based logging) as implemented by
systemd. If a systemd service definition file is configured with
_StandardError=journal_ or _StandardError=kmsg_ (and similar with
_StandardOutput=_), these prefixes can be used to encode a log level
in lines printed. This is similar to the kernel **printk()**-style
logging. See **klogctl**(2) for more information.
The log levels are identical to [syslog(3)](../man3/syslog.3.html)'s log level system. To
use these prefixes simply prefix every line with one of these
strings. A line that is not prefixed will be logged at the default
log level SD_INFO.
**Example 1. Hello World**
A daemon may log with the log level NOTICE by issuing this call:
fprintf(stderr, SD_NOTICE "Hello World!\n");
NOTES top
Functions described here are available as a shared library, which
can be compiled against and linked to with the
**libsystemd pkg-config**(1) file.
The code described here uses [getenv(3)](../man3/getenv.3.html), which is declared to be
not multi-thread-safe. This means that the code calling the
functions described here must not call [setenv(3)](../man3/setenv.3.html) from a parallel
thread. It is recommended to only do calls to **setenv()** from an
early phase of the program when no other threads have been
started.
SEE ALSO top
[systemd(1)](../man1/systemd.1.html), [sd_listen_fds(3)](../man3/sd%5Flisten%5Ffds.3.html), [sd_notify(3)](../man3/sd%5Fnotify.3.html), [sd_booted(3)](../man3/sd%5Fbooted.3.html),
[sd_is_fifo(3)](../man3/sd%5Fis%5Ffifo.3.html), [sd_watchdog_enabled(3)](../man3/sd%5Fwatchdog%5Fenabled.3.html), [daemon(7)](../man7/daemon.7.html),
[systemd.service(5)](../man5/systemd.service.5.html), [systemd.socket(5)](../man5/systemd.socket.5.html), [fprintf(3)](../man3/fprintf.3.html), **pkg-config**(1)
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Pages that refer to this page:systemd(1), libsystemd(3), sd_booted(3), sd_is_fifo(3), sd_journal_stream_fd(3), sd_listen_fds(3), sd-login(3), sd_notify(3), sd_watchdog_enabled(3), systemd.exec(5), daemon(7), systemd.directives(7), systemd.index(7)