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Old 03-18-2007
Capture of all commands issued by the user “root”
I have to write a script (not C based) that allows to capture of all commands issued by the user “root”.

First, I tried to monitor the .bash_history but the commands are written in chunk after the .bash_history is closed.

How can I capture the commands in Real-Time without waiting root to close his shell ?
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Old 03-18-2007
It helps to mention what operating system you are talking about, also why does it need to be a shell script?
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Old 03-19-2007
not a GUI
It has to be compliant with RHEL3, RHEL4, SLES9, AIX 5.2, AIX 5.3

the module has to be written as a script because it has to be integrated in a proprietary agent that runs only scripts.

All the processing has to run in the background (Not a GUI).
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Old 03-19-2007
man script
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Old 03-19-2007
Add the following line to .profile (In case you are using Ksh)

script -a ~/.termlog`date +%m%d%y`

This enable to capture all the terminal activities to a file.

Please let me know if this works.

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan
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