Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add shopt to enable writing history to syslog at runtime Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 15:19:38 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 21 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20180518093442.25953-1-bluca@debian.org> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1526843990 10955 208.118.235.17 (20 May 2018 19:19:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Luca Boccassi , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: <20180518093442.25953-1-bluca@debian.org> Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=7/90, host=mpv4-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=7/90, refid=2.7.2:2018.5.20.183316:17:7.944, ip=, rules=__HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_900_999, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_RCPT, __TO_REAL_NAMES, MULTIPLE_REAL_RCPTS, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.195 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14114 On 5/18/18 5:34 AM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > Currently writing history to syslog can be enabled at compile time by > editing config-top.h and rebuilding. > To allow more flexibility, and to allow users of distributions to > enable this feature at runtime without having to rebuild bash, add a > "syslog" shopt. > To maintain backward compatibility keep using SYSLOG_HISTORY as before > to enable logging to syslog unconditionally. There is already code to implement equivalent functionality in the devel branch. It, like SYSLOG_HISTORY, has to be enabled at compile time. I don't like the feature in general -- it's an invasion of privacy -- and I don't think it needs to be any easier to enable. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/