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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Tracing a terminal Post 18875 by LivinFree on Thursday 4th of April 2002 01:08:25 AM
Old 04-04-2002
What Unix are you using? Some (Linux distributions specifically) come with a tool called ttysnoop, that mirrors their terminal session on another terminal you can log into. Other times (depending on the shell - this doesn't work in real time with the bash shell for example) you can simply tail -f /home/usrname/.sh_history...
If you just want to turn on auditing, knowing the Unix variant you're using is helpful, since different system log different ways.

Also, if you want a screendump of what the user is doing on the terminal (I think it only works on the /dev/tty* terminals) in Linux, look at the /dev/vcs* files. See man vcs for more info.
 

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libvte

libvte(3)							   User Commands							 libvte(3)

NAME

       libvte - Virtual Terminal Emulator library

DESCRIPTION

       libvte provides a terminal emulator control for GTK+.

       To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version of the package.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/lib/libvte.so	       Virtual Terminal Emulator shared library

       /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/vte     Location of developer documentation

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-terminal	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-terminal(1), vte(1), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

SunOS 5.11							    7 Sep 2004								 libvte(3)
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