That was exactly it. I kept thinking of openlog as opening a pointer to a file.
Thanks, all for you insights. On Aug 23, 2016 9:44 AM, "Chet Ramey" <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 8/22/16 4:10 PM, Richard Lohman wrote: > > Hey all: > > > > In my attempts to log commands from bash via syslog, I've come upon a > snag. > > The output is of the form: > > Mmm dd HH:MM:SS hostname -bash: command > > This was obtained by uncommenting the define in config-top.h and changing > > the call to syslog in bashhist.c as such: > > syslog(SYSLOG_FACILITY|SYSLOG_LEVEL, "%s", line); > > > > Problem is, I'd like the output to resemble other syslog messages: > > Mmm dd HH:MM:SS hostname bash[pid]: command > > And ultimately drop the username in as well. Since only bash is logging > in > > this format, I'm guessing there is something in the bash source tree > > impacting the format, but I can't seem to find it. > > Whether or not the pid is printed as part of the message (once you remove > it from the default bash syslog format string) is a property of the options > passed to openlog(). bash-4.4 has an OPENLOG_OPTS define, and a > corresponding call to openlog() that uses it, to set this. Bash-4.3 > doesn't call openlog, so it uses the system's syslog defaults. > > If you want to print the username instead of the uid, use > current_user.user_name instead of current_user.uid, which the original bash > syslog call uses. You've already changed the format, so you can drop > another %s in there and use current_user.user_name. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~ > chet/ >
