You could also just run the watch command in a screen session or even daemonize it, if possible.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 3:00 PM To: Anjang Aki Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Tracking user's activity Anjang Aki wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been looking for a proper way to to track down user's activity > inside the shell as I'm helping my colleague to configure a web > hosting and shell hosting server. > > Someone have referred me to this article -- > http://bsdtips.utcorp.net/mediawiki/index.php/Snoop which is using > 'watch' commands to view user's activity once they logged in to the > server > > I found that this 'watch' utility is very useful and are able to > fulfill my needs but I can only be able to watch the activity once I'm > logging to the server at the time the users are logging in. > > Is there is any way that logging user's activity can be done without a > need for me to login at the server at the same time? Perhaps the > activity can be logged into a file and I can read it later. > > Or is there is any other utility I can use just to monitor user's > activity as the server is misused by a user previously and I don't > want it to happen again in the future. > > Best regards, > > > Hello! You can use "script filename" and start doing your stuff. The user can press CTRL-D when he's finished doing his stuff so the content can be flushed to the file. Happy new year, Frank _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" __________ NOD32 2759 (20080101) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
