Solaris

Hi

I am using 'script' command in .login of users to record their sessions but it is displaying the messages like:

Code:

Script started, file is typescript

and

Code:

Script done, file is typescript

But I do not want these messages to be printed to user.

I tried script -q for silent run to disable displaying messages but it says -q switch is not supported.

Is there a fix for -q, a patch or something?? Or any other workaround.

Code:

test@GGNAP25 {13} uname -a
GGNAP25 GGNAP25 5.10 Generic_137111-01 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

BR//

There is not much you can do with the script command. The only switch supported (-a) opens the script file in append mode.

script prints the message to stdout, so you could redirect stdout to /dev/null

Code:

script >/dev/null

but then, there would be no output to the screen while script is running.

The best bet would be to download the source of the script utility from Cross Reference: /onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/script/script.c (it's just a single source file), remove the offending printf-statements ("script started ...", "script ended ...") and compile it yourself to a command, say 'quietscript' and use this instead of script.