Control: tags -1 upstream wontfix * Meeuwissen Olaf <meeuwissen.o...@exc.epson.co.jp> [191114 10:24]: [..] > In this case I would have expected the process to be `bash`, the shell > from which I ran the `logger` command, not my username. > > I don't know if using the username instead of the parent process name is > intended behaviour or not but if it is a note in the manual page would > be nice. If it is not intended behaviour, it ought to be fixed.
logger(1) clearly documents this: The default tag is the name of the user logged in on the terminal (or a user name based on effective user ID). It also says other things that are recommended when running logger from a shell script (like dhclient-script), i.e. to pass --id=$$(PPID). logger itself does no magic to determine its parent process, and I don't see how it could do that in a meaningful way without a backwards incompatible change. Chris
