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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris logs - Tracking failed attempts from my host Post 302594692 by bartus11 on Wednesday 1st of February 2012 03:36:07 AM
Old 02-01-2012
There is another option: process auditing. But it is way more difficult to setup than this DTrace one-liner. It also introduces overhead to the system (DTrace does not do that). You can read about Solaris auditing services here: Oracle Solaris Auditing - System Administration Guide: Security Services. There is probably something similar in Linux.
 

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dtrace(7D)							      Devices								dtrace(7D)

NAME
dtrace - DTrace dynamic tracing facility DESCRIPTION
The dtrace driver provides the dynamic instrumentation and tracing facilities for the DTrace software, as well as the built-in dtrace provider. The dtrace driver is not a public interface and you access the instrumentation offered by this provider through DTrace tools such as dtrace(1M). Refer to the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide for a description of the public documented interfaces available for the DTrace facility and dtrace provider probes. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdtrp | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Private | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dtrace(1M), libdtrace(3LIB), attributes(5) Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide SunOS 5.10 4 Sep 2003 dtrace(7D)
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