According to Michael B. Trausch: While burning my CPU.
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> Guys and gals,
> Thanks all of you for all of your answers to my previous questions! It
> is very appreciated. If it weren't for this mailing list, I'd have
> probably thrown the computer out a window somewhere. =)
> I have a new question, hopefully a real easy one for you UNIX and Linux
> buffs out there... Is there a file or a program that is installed that
> will tell me the login and logout times and dates of every user that has
> used the system? I want to be able to use some type of feature like
> this (I would think that it would exist, UNIX being as secure as it is)
Perhaps the command 'last <user>' would help you here.
> so that I can monitor access to the computer. It would be great if the
> system somehow logs all of the transactions of a person, as well (say,
> if user "mtrausch" executes "ifup ppp0" at 12:30 am, 1/1/99, I want to
> know this, and I want my system to have this logged, and be able to
> retrieve the information). Does *anyone* know how to do this?
/var/log or /var/adm "syslog" "messages" "debug" are files which that sort
of information are written to. Check you /etc/syslog.conf to see just how
much information is written to the logs and just what they are called.
To gain information from the log(s) you could use a small script to grep for
certain key words such as PPP and have the information written to a file of
output it to the screen.
Or even define a special log for events you want to know about from
/etc/syslog.conf
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> Thanks again!
> Mike Trausch
>
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Regards Richard.
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Happy New Year, and may all your troubles be small (ones).
