Tip 1
Record Eveything Printed on Your Terminal Screen.
$ script -a <filename>
Now start doing stuff and "everything" is appended to <filename>.
For example
$ script installation
$ (command)
$ (result)
$ ...
$ ...
$ (command)
$ (result)
$ exit
The whole session log is in the installation file that you can later
read and/or cleanup and add to a documentation.
This command can also be used to redirect the contents to another
user,
but you must be root to do this.
Step 1 - find out what pts they are using.
$ w
Step 2 - Run script on that pts. After running this command below
everything you type will appear on their screen.
$ script /dev/pts/4
TIP 2:
script -f with mkfifo to allow another user to view what you type
in real-time.
Step 1. Create a fifo (first in first out) file that the other
user can view. For this example create the file
/tmp/scriptout
[chir...@laptop ~]$ mkfifo /tmp/scriptout
Step 2. Have the second user, voyeur user, cat this file.
Output will block
for them until you complete step 3. The other user, voyer,
is executing the command below.
[voy...@laptop ~]$ cat /tmp/scriptout
Step 3. The original user runs the following command.
[chir...@laptop ~]$ script -f /tmp/scriptout
Script started, file is /tmp/scriptout
Now anything typed, including a vi session, will be
displayed to the
voyeur user in step 2.
