Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:38:25 -0400 (EDT) From: <login@istop.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Logging user root activities Message-ID: <20040708173825.B8F0A17D4F8@smtp.istop.com>
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Sysadmins:
I am developing a habit of keeping a record what I am doing on the system.
The best solution I have come with to run script(1) in the .login file. Here
is the line in the .login:
/usr/bin/script -q $HOME/adminlog/`last | head -1 | awk '{print $3}'`-
`date "+%Y-%m-%d-%Hh-%Mm-%Ss.log"`
It create a file ip.add.re.ss-2004-07-08-13h-03m-59s.log in the
$HOME/adminlog directory. I guess that I need to know my IP, date and time
and activities. This works ok this far.
The only thing I can not avoid is to have two times control-D when I need
to exit the system as said even in the man of script(1), see below:
"The script ends when the forked shell (or command) exits (a control-D to
exit the Bourne shell (sh(1)), and exit, logout or control-D (if
ignoreeof is not set) for the C-shell, csh(1))."
How other admins are doing to have a record of their activities while on the
system? I looked on ports in the sysutils and could not find port matching
this object.
S. Mohammad [login@istop.com]
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