tramp sudo logging

tramp sudo logging

[Karl Chen]

I've been enjoying tramp for a while; here's a suggestion.

Tramp's sudo support breaks sudo's logging.  (Sudo's logging
facility is very important especially on a system with many
administrators; files edited through tramp currently only show
"sudo bash".)

It would be nice to have the option to:

 1) when starting the sudo shell, also do "sudo echo '[Emacs tramp
    sub-process]'"

 2) for each file edited, also do "sudo echo '[Emacs tramp:
    editing file foo]'"


-- 
Karl 2004-05-12 16:07

Re: tramp sudo logging

[Xavier Maillard]

On 13 May 2004, Karl Chen wrote:

> I've been enjoying tramp for a while; here's a suggestion.
> 
> Tramp's sudo support breaks sudo's logging.  (Sudo's logging
> facility is very important especially on a system with many
> administrators; files edited through tramp currently only show
> "sudo bash".)
> 
> It would be nice to have the option to:
> 
> 1) when starting the sudo shell, also do "sudo echo '[Emacs tramp
> sub-process]'"
> 
> 2) for each file edited, also do "sudo echo '[Emacs tramp:
> editing file foo]'"

Can't you do it by yourself with some hooks ?
-- 
Xavier Maillard, zedek@gnu-rox.org

Re: tramp sudo logging

[Kai Grossjohann]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu-rox.org> writes:

> On 13 May 2004, Karl Chen wrote:
>
>> It would be nice to have the option to:
>> 
>> 1) when starting the sudo shell, also do "sudo echo '[Emacs tramp
>> sub-process]'"

I think that this can be done with tramp-initial-commands.  Or
perhaps by redefining the sudo command.

>> 2) for each file edited, also do "sudo echo '[Emacs tramp:
>> editing file foo]'"
>
> Can't you do it by yourself with some hooks ?

I've now added tramp-handle-write-region-hook and
tramp-handle-file-local-copy-hook which are called at the end of the
respective functions.  Using this you can achieve the behavior you
want, I think.  New version in Tramp CVS only, though.

Kai