Re: Starting "Script" when user logs on.

[Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>]

Md Shanto wrote:

> Initially I tired with "ttyrec" a tty recorder and failed, as it says
> "Out of pty's - Terminated".

Unless these processes aren't being cleaned up (in which case, you
will probably have over a hundred stale ttyrec processes), it may be
that ttyrec was compiled for BSD-style ptys but your system is using
Unix98 ptys (or vice-versa).

> 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
> ------------------

Apart from anything else, you should probably use "exec" for the last
statement, i.e.:

	exec /usr/bin/script -q /var/log/commlog/$USER-$LOGTIME

This causes the "script" process to replace the bash process running
the shell script, rather than leaving the bash process hanging around
until script exits.