Re: Bash 5.2: Missing ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’ in doc/bashref.texi

[Chet Ramey]

On 3/17/24 12:50 PM, tpeplt wrote:
> Bash Maintainers,
>
>     The texinfo version of the bash manual is missing a description of
> the ‘shopt’ option ‘syslog_history’.  This can be confirmed by
> downloading bash-master.tar.gz from:

It's an optional feature that is not enabled without special effort. I
don't document those.

> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/snapshot/bash-master.tar.gz
>
> Searching the file bash-master/doc/bashref.texi gives no instance of
> "syslog" or "syslog_history".  An entry for ‘syslog_history’ is provided
> in the ‘man’ page for ‘bash’:
>
>     syslog_history
>            If set, command history is logged to syslog.

Not in the version of bash you downloaded. This must be a vendor addition.

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