tail kodi.log (or any other logfile) to syslog

kodi-syslog-tail.sh

#!/bin/bash
tail -f /home/osmc/.kodi/temp/kodi.log |
while read -r line
do
   logger $line
done

A little improvement for the logger call:

logger -t KODI "${line:37}"

-t : sets a tag which is used as program name in syslog
${line:37} : removes the fixed length time stamp from the kodi log (tested only on Debian; length may be different on other platforms?)

.. and the tail command:

tail -n0 -F

-n0 : don't include the last lines when starting the log "transfer"
-F : retry reading the file until access is possible

The last one is needed when starting this process during boot, while the file kodi.log may not be accessible at that time.

In the meantime I switched to this solution after reading that read is not recommended in this context and pure "pipe" is performing better.

tail -n0 -F /home/kodi/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | stdbuf -o0 cut -c37- | logger -t KODI