Question for all sysadmins.
How do you keep track of what commands each user uses on his account. I thought an easy way is to monitor .bash_history, however those files can be "edited" by the user.
Is there a permission combination that will allow the shell to record to it but yet they can't edit... (12 Replies)
During the course of the session before I logout I see some of the commands listed from my previous session but not from my current session and after I logout and log back in I see the commands which I ran before logging out.
Does the .bash_history stay in the buffer or someplace else then?
... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I am creating users on our servers. the .bash_history supposed to store all the commands entered by the user. My question is, how can I prevent the user himself from editing or viewing this file?
I have tried chaning the owner of the .bash_history to be the root user but... (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a file disk_space.log.
cat disk_space.log
94% /
32% /boot
38% /mnt/data
100% /media/CDROM
I want the output, like
cat disk_space.log
94% /
100% /media/CDROM
That means print the line those are grater-than 90%. And rest of the line is remove from file.
I have a... (2 Replies)
Hi - user commands are written in . bash_history of that user when he logs out. my bash_history file shows. not sure what that number means
#1329618972
ls -la
#1329618978
ls
#1329618980
ls -la
my bash_profile looks like this
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
export PATH
export... (3 Replies)
rm -rf .bash_history some one ran rm -rf .bash_history on my Linux server(SUSE),I can see this command being run in current history, but I want the OLD history as well,can I recover the old history back. (9 Replies)
Hi would like to ask if there is anyway to display .bash_history with timestamp using shell script?
i know that you should use history command with HISTTIMEFORMAT="%d/%m/%y %T " to display it in terminal but it does not work when i use it on shell script. It seem that you can't run history... (1 Reply)
I am using the bash shell.
When I view my recent command history using the "history" command from the prompt, it only shows me the commands starting at #928.
The commands I need are earlier than that, but I can't figure out how to make the other 927 display.
They are in my .bash_history... (1 Reply)
I'm usia Raspbian, a Debian subset, and wondering what work would be involved in altering the cp command.
cp at present needs a full path and file name for source and at least full filename for destination. How can I change this so the second parameter isn't needed? So if the destination... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: MuntyScrunt
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
strange
strange(6x) XScreenSaver manual strange(6x)NAME
strange - draws strange attractors
SYNOPSIS
strange [-display host:display.screen] [-foreground color] [-background color] [-window] [-root] [-mono] [-install] [-visual visual]
[-ncolors integer] [-delay microseconds]
[-fps]
DESCRIPTION
The strange program draws strange attractors
OPTIONS
strange accepts the following options:
-window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default.
-root Draw on the root window.
-mono If on a color display, pretend we're on a monochrome display.
-install
Install a private colormap for the window.
-visual visual
Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual.
-ncolors integer
How many colors should be used (if possible). Default 100. The colors are chosen randomly.
-fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT
to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
SEE ALSO X(1), xscreensaver(1), xlock(1)COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1997 by Massimino Pascal.
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, pro-
vided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in sup-
porting documentation.
AUTHOR
Massimino Pascal <Pascal.Massimon@ens.fr>, 1997.
Ability to run standalone or with xscreensaver added by Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>, 10-May-97.
X Version 11 5.15 (28-Sep-2011) strange(6x)