Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I do know that once, long ago, I tried to get bash to do proper command > logging for our general-purpose gateway hosts that have 500+ users. It > was a nightmare and I eventually concluded that history, logging and > such things are 100% the province of the user and not the sysadmin. It > just caused way more trouble than it solved. I suspect what you are > looking for is very much in the same category. Maybe "script" can be use to parse the syntax strings into a user-defined log file from the root shell... You'd most likely want to use the "AND" logic operator of the history buffer to campare against the "script" generated file to get a clean copy; or something like that. Seems like I did something like that years (decades) ago, but the memory is not what it use to be..... It should not be that difficult to write something from scratch..... good_hunting.... James

