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How to log bash history with syslog

There are two methods to get this thing done. 1. Trap method – drop the following snippet into either the per-user or system-wide bash profile (~/.bash_profile or /etc/profile, respectively) unset HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE export HISTTIMEFORMAT=’%F %T’ function log2syslog{    declare COMMAND    COMMAND=$(fc -ln -0)    logger -p local1.notice -t bash -i — “${USER}:${COMMAND}”}trap log2syslog DEBUG … Continue reading How to log bash history with syslog