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Operating Systems AIX Remote Script command logging question Post 302732003 by kneemoe on Friday 16th of November 2012 10:46:49 AM

11-16-2012

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Remote Script command logging question

I've noticed that when running a script that connects to a number of our servers (to essentially run batch commands) that the commands aren't logged in the user's .sh_history or .bash_history files. Is there a place where this is logged (assuming the script itself isn't doing the logging and I'm not tee'ing the output anywhere)?

I'm talking specifically about AIX, but I would assume this question applies to all the *nix flavors.

As a tag-along to this post, I often nohup these commands (like sendmail -bi) so the script can run through all the hosts quickly. What can I enter in the script to create one large nohup.out on the machine running the script that's reaching out to all the others?Right now I've got

Code:

for node in `cat /home/root/script/shortlist`
#for node in `cat /usr/local/bin/AIX_server_list`
do
echo $node
ssh $node lssrc -s sendmail
echo "***"
ssh $node cp /etc/aliases /etc/aliases.old
scp -p /etc/aliases $node:/etc/aliases
ssh $node nohup sendmail -bi &
ssh $node lssrc -s sendmail
ssh $node cat /home/root/nohup.out >> ~/script/sendmailbi_log.txt
echo "%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%"
done

but that failed miserably, I'm guessing that's because the nohup was given via an ssh and not in an interactive shell so nothing got logged?

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ssh-argv0

SSH-ARGV0(1)                                                BSD General Commands Manual                                               SSH-ARGV0(1)

NAME

     ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling

SYNOPSIS

     hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command]

     hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name]
     [-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command]

DESCRIPTION

     ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling.  If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is
     equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument.  All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally.

OPTIONS

     See ssh(1).

FILES

     See ssh(1).

AUTHORS

     OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.  Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
     Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH.  Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
     protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.  Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation.

SEE ALSO

     ssh(1)

Debian Project                                                   September 7, 2001                                                  Debian Project

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