Re: Starting "Script" when user logs on.

[urgrue <urgrue@tumsan.fi>]

I don't think script will help you, as even if you get it working, your  
users can just Ctrl-D out of it. Unless you trust your users.
Once upon a time I used ttysnoop:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttysnoop/


On 08/03/2005 01:38:10 PM, Md Shanto wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to force "script" for logging all text I/O activities at
> the moment user logs in. Most of the users are running bash at this
> moment.
> 
> Initially I tired with "ttyrec" a tty recorder and failed, as it says
> "Out of pty's - Terminated". Now, I tried something like below:
> 
> ------------------
> #!/bin/bash -l
> USER=`whoami`
> LOGTIME=`date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S`
> /usr/bin/script -q /var/log/commlog/$USER-$LOGTIME
> ------------------
> 
> and assigning this script in /etc/passws. This script will log
> scripts
> with time stamp in /var/log/commlog/.
> 
> what happen is: when user logs in the process becomes a loop and I
> see
> lot of script instances are running.
> 
> Any idea.
> 
> -Refayet
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