OSF DCE Application Development Guide--Core Components

Using the DCE Serviceability Application Interface
sev :out_form:dest[;out_form:dest . . . ][GOESTO:{sev | comp }]
where:
sev Specifies the severity level of the message, and must be one of the
following:
• FATAL
• ERROR
• WARNING
• NOTICE
• NOTICE_VERBOSE
The meanings of these severity levels are explained in detail in Section
4.3.3.
out_form (output form) Specifies how the messages of a given severity level
should be processed, and must be one of the following:
BINFILE Write these messages as binary log entries.
TEXTFILE Write these messages as human-readable text.
FILE Equivalent to TEXTFILE.
DISCARD Do not record messages of this severity level.
STDOUT Write these messages as human-readable text to
standard output.
STDERR Write these messages as human-readable text to
standard error.
Files written as BINFILEs can be read and manipulated with a set of log
file functions, or with the svcdumplog command. For further
information, see Section 4.3.6.
The out_form specifier may be followed by a two-number specifier of the
form:
.gens.count
where:
gens Is an integer that specifies the number of files (that is,
generations) that should be kept.
count Is an integer specifying how many entries (that is, messages)
should be written to each file.
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