> 1. is there an undocumented flag in run-parts, which I can use for this
> purpose?
I don't thing so
> 2. is there an easy way to get messages from shell and perl scripts into
> the syslog?
man logger
NAME
logger - make entries in the system log
SYNOPSIS
logger [-is] [-f file] [-p pri] [-t tag] [-u socket] [message ...]
DESCRIPTION
W.