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Old 11-07-2008
Can history commands show what time command executed

On Solaris 8 and 10 is there a way history command can show what time a particular command was executed.

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Thanks

Last edited by Tirmazi; 11-07-2008 at 11:42 AM..
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Old 11-08-2008
You can append a time stamp to each user's shell history file. That would at least give you an idea in what time frame a command executed. This would be a cron job set to run ever half hour of so.
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Old 11-08-2008
You can use something like that (ksh):
Code:
PS1='$(print -s "# $(date +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S)") $ '

That would pollute the history file though ...
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