Shell Programming and Scripting

dear all ,

I m new to shell programming and I need your help.

Actually i want to keep track of all the commands executed in a bash prompt of users ,
very much in same manner as it is displayed when we run "history" command.

now the users are smart enough as they delete their history by "history -c".

I have read about auditing in linux but logs are very confusing and not very much in detailed for what was the argument that was passed with the command .

Can anyone give me an idea of how to get the complete command history or how could i disable "history -c" so that i can keep track of the records of the users.

my motive is to get the command exactly in same manner as it was executed

E.g: -- Someone typed "rm -rf Impfile.txt"

Then i need exactly the same syntax ----> "rm -rf Impfile.txt" to keep the track record .

I have searched several forums all say that it is not possible to stop users from deleting their history .
I have googled a lot for this but didn't find any satisfactory answer.

I know there must be some solution to this that is why I am posting in this forum as many linux experts are on this forum.

Thanx in Advance

You could look into rootsh

thanx for the reply

Could you please explain in little detail.

From the link:
SourceForge.net: rootsh
This may not suit your requirement, but it's out there, and you can look at it...

Will it work for those users who don't need a shell with root privileges. I mean only the normal user.
As my motive is to keep track of the normal users activity.

I have not tried to implement it for any user aside from those requiring root permissions.

From the description, it seems that it could be modified for any user:

I m sorry to say but that doen't help me much.

I have read for rootsh it is designed for the root shell recording. but my motive is to keep track of ordinary users!!!!!!!!!

Please help