Comment 2 for bug 1083715

$ uname -a
Linux oxy-oxygen-0a-57-5c-76.corp.gq1.yahoo.com 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.YAHOO.20120713.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jul 13 11:40:51 CDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lsb_release -a
LSB Version: :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
Release: 6.2
Codename: Santiago

Looking at `man logger` on that VM (a similar one actually) it appears that the older versions of logger don't have the log option :-/