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Does logger(1) command belong to util-linux? it is not shown in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/util-linux/index.html, but in https://manpages.debian.org/testing/bsdutils/logger.1.en.html.

Ben
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It's part of util-linux, but Debian has packaged it in the bsdutils package. There's a pile of other packages that are also compiled from the util-linux source package, apart from util-linux and bsdutils.

You can see the (installed) binary package a file belongs to with dpkg -S:

$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/logger
bsdutils: /usr/bin/logger

apt-cache showsrc package should show the corresponding source package, but I just looked at the online package search; the source package is mentioned in the side bar.

ilkkachu
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  • Are the packages listed in https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/util-linux subsets of util-linux? – Ben Apr 01 '21 at 00:48
  • @Ben, subsets of the upstream util-linux, pretty much, yes. They probably split the tools in multiple packages so that you don't have to e.g. install fdisk if you don't want to. So the binary package "util-linux" is also a subset of the source package "util-linux". I'm not so sure why they've bothered with the split between bsdutils and util-linux (the binary package), since they're both marked as Essential anyway, so you can't leave either out. – ilkkachu Apr 01 '21 at 08:37
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You can use apt-file to get the package name providing logger:

$ which logger
/usr/bin/logger

$ apt-file search /usr/bin/logger


bsdutils: /usr/bin/logger

loggerhead: /usr/bin/loggerhead-serve

From the output bsdutils provide logger command.

To install apt-file:

sudo apt install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
GAD3R
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