Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!enother.net!enother.net!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!169.228.66.3.MISMATCH!ihnp4.UCSD.Edu!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: Feature Request re: syslog and bashhist Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:19:08 -0400 Lines: 38 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <55C78FC8.1050609@gmail.com> 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 1439237962 23027 208.118.235.17 (10 Aug 2015 20:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: aixtools , bug-bash@gnu.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 In-Reply-To: <55C78FC8.1050609@gmail.com> X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mpv6.cwru.edu X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv2.tis.cwru.edu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.105.37 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Received-Bytes: 2939 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1504621200 Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11318 On 8/9/15 1:37 PM, aixtools wrote: > Hi, > > Via google I came across the define named > > config-top.h:/* #define SYSLOG_HISTORY */ > > Changing it (manually) to > config-top.h:#define SYSLOG_HISTORY > > Adds syslog statements such as: > Aug 9 16:52:55 x064 user:info syslog: HISTORY: PID=262242 UID=0 ls -ltr > > Request #1 > Add a ./configure variable, e.g., --with-syslog_history I will think about this, but I am inclined not to do it. It's easy enough to enable for those few user who want to do so. > Request #2 > > At the request of a bash user on AIX I made the following change to make > the syslog output "standardized" to AIX format for many applications so > that the output looks like this: > > Aug 9 17:30:12 x064 user:info syslog: bash[454682]: UID=0: ls -ltr The better way to do this is to use openlog(). I will add the necessary pieces to call openlog with the shell name as the identifier and LOG_PID as the default value for the log options. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/