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Old 07-22-2005
Trapping the rm command in UNIX
Hi All,

Whoever types rm in the command prompt I need to trap the username, the ip address,timestamp and the rm filename(which file they are removing) and write it to the log file. could anyone help me?.


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Suma
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Old 07-22-2005
You could write a shell script rm.sh in the /usr/local/bin directory
Code:
LOGFILE=/home/guest/firefly/sh/rm.log
echo =============== >> $LOGFILE
who | grep $LOGNAME >> $LOGFILE
date >> $LOGFILE
pwd >> $LOGFILE
echo $@ >> $LOGFILE
echo =============== >> $LOGFILE
rm.org $@

and link the /usr/bin/rm -> /usr/local/bin/rm.sh

Each entry between the = signs is one rm entry. This gives the user details, the date and time, the directory where the command was run, and all the args that were passed to rm.
Last edited by blowtorch; 07-22-2005 at 03:46 PM.. Reason: add a few more details to the log
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