[clug] bash history > syslog working :)

[Tony Breeds]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 07:02:35AM +1000, Michael Cohen wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>   I dont know if this is what you are looking for but its easy to send
> anything to syslog using the logger program:
> 
> 1) First you make a pipe
> 
> mkdir /tmp/somename p

mkfifo?


On another note a google + "I'm feelign lucky" gave me:
http://posludio.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/bash-history-to-a-remote-syslog/

The core of which seems to be:
default:~# diff -pu /etc/profile.20071101 /etc/profile
— /etc/profile.20071101 2007-11-02 01:36:03.000000000 +0000
+++ /etc/profile 2007-11-02 01:41:10.000000000 +0000
@@ -36,3 +36,10 @@ if [ "$BASH" ]; then
# export TMOUT=300
fi

+function history_to_syslog
+{
+ declare cmd
+ cmd=$(fc -ln -0)
+ logger -p local7.notice — SESSION = $$, CMD =$cmd
+}
+trap history_to_syslog DEBUG

I used to have to patch bash to do what you want but that was a while
ago.

Yours Tony

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