On 23 Aug 2016, at 08:08, Bob Proulx wrote: > Richard Lohman wrote: >> 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 > > I suggest using the 'logger' command instead of modifying bash [..]
Thats one way to do it. For me, the most natural solution was a log builtin: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-12/msg00088.html I kind of wanted to add log --syslog there anyway. Now I am not sure how useful it can be. Sorry for artificial rising of my own citation ranking ;-) cheers, pg
