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Operating Systems Linux Debian Some commands not logged in pacct Post 302665823 by suvios on Tuesday 3rd of July 2012 08:30:21 AM
Old 07-03-2012
Some commands not logged in pacct

Hi,

Examining the Debian Linux logfiles, I found out that not all commands are logged in my pacct (/var/log/account/pacct)

For instance, if I run and stop Wireshark and do after that

# lastcomm | grep "wireshark"

The wireshark command is logged as expected.

Code:
# lastcomm | grep "wireshark"
wireshark            X user   pts/4      0.68 secs Sun Jul  1 18:55
#

But if i do the same with for instance Gedit, then i got nothing.

Code:
# lastcomm | grep "gedit"
#

What could be the reason for that?


I looked already for quite a long time on the internet for answers but couldn't find them. And all the tutorials talk about the logging of ALL executed commands, not about any exceptions. So, I am a bit confused.

Till now, all the applications i tested where graphical applications of Gnome those are not logged, like:
gedit, gthumb and evolution. So just a thought: Could the reason perhaps lie in the fact that those applications are part of some bigger 'application' that is still running?

Last edited by suvios; 07-03-2012 at 11:36 AM..
 

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lastcomm(1)						      General Commands Manual						       lastcomm(1)

Name
       lastcomm - show last commands executed in reverse order

Syntax
       lastcomm [command name...] [user name...] [terminal name...]

Description
       The  command gives information on previously executed commands.	With no arguments, prints information about all the commands recorded dur-
       ing the current accounting file's lifetime.  If called with arguments, only accounting entries with a matching command name, user name,	or
       terminal  name  are printed.  The following example produces a listing of all the executions of commands named by user root on the terminal
       ttyd0:
       lastcomm a.out root ttyd0

       For each process entry, the following are printed:

		 The name of the user who ran the process.

		 Flags, as accumulated by the accounting facilities in the system.

		 The command name under which the process was called.

		 The amount of cpu time used by the process (in seconds).

		 The time the process exited.

       The flags are encoded as follows:

		 ``S'' indicates the command was executed by the super-user

		 ``F'' indicates the command ran after a fork, but without a following exec

		 ``C'' indicates the command was run in PDP-11 compatibility mode (VAX only)

		 ``D'' indicates the command terminated with the generation of a core file

		 ``X'' indicates the command was terminated with the signal SIGTERM

See Also
       last(1), sigvec(2), acct(5), core(5)

																       lastcomm(1)
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