logging console input

logging console input

[Paul Gimpelj]

Well,

Say I am typing all day and night into console and want a record of my input
to review later.
in case I forgot what i typed in hours ago.

Under windows one hooks into the journaling hook vector. by writing a
program in c.
This gives the keyboard input so it can be recorded into a file.

Is there a simple way to log the keyboard of the console, or does one need
to write a module
to hook the kernel.

thanks.


Ps.
I am using ms mail 6. and wouldn't it be nice if i could just click reply
and it would send my response
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rather than ....

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Re: logging console input

[Michael Taylor]

Paul Gimpelj wrote:
> Say I am typing all day and night into console and want a record of my input
> to review later.
> in case I forgot what i typed in hours ago.

man script

Enjoy!

re: logging console input

[Paul Gimpelj]

Yes. and no. a fork or Tee would be nice.
Someone suggested to use script.
but I would prefer to bounce around consoles and xconsoles.
and trap and journal all input.
thanks
paul

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John T. Williams reponds:

Am I right in saying that what you want is a key logger, which logs
all key strokes regardless of which terminal they are inputted to.

In fact a program that sits between the kernels main keyboard buffer
and user land programs, logging all input before any user land program
can remove them from the main input buffer?


On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:54, Paul Gimpelj wrote:
> Well,
>
> Say I am typing all day and night into console and want a record of my
input
> to review later.
> in case I forgot what i typed in hours ago.
>
> Under windows one hooks into the journaling hook vector. by writing a
> program in c.
> This gives the keyboard input so it can be recorded into a file.
>
> Is there a simple way to log the keyboard of the console, or does one need
> to write a module
> to hook the kernel.
>
> thanks.
>
>
> Ps.
> I am using ms mail 6. and wouldn't it be nice if i could just click reply
> and it would send my response
> to the linux-c........
>
> rather than ....
>
> or is there a different email browser set up for this mail list?
>

re: logging console input

[Venkatesharao, Lakshmesha]

I feel you can use dup or dup2.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Gimpelj [SMTP:pgimpelj@sympatico.ca]
> Sent:	Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:38 PM
> To:	linux-c-programming
> Subject:	re: logging console input
> 
> Yes. and no. a fork or Tee would be nice.
> Someone suggested to use script.
> but I would prefer to bounce around consoles and xconsoles.
> and trap and journal all input.
> thanks
> paul
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> 
> John T. Williams reponds:
> 
> Am I right in saying that what you want is a key logger, which logs
> all key strokes regardless of which terminal they are inputted to.
> 
> In fact a program that sits between the kernels main keyboard buffer
> and user land programs, logging all input before any user land program
> can remove them from the main input buffer?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:54, Paul Gimpelj wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > Say I am typing all day and night into console and want a record of my
> input
> > to review later.
> > in case I forgot what i typed in hours ago.
> >
> > Under windows one hooks into the journaling hook vector. by writing a
> > program in c.
> > This gives the keyboard input so it can be recorded into a file.
> >
> > Is there a simple way to log the keyboard of the console, or does one
> need
> > to write a module
> > to hook the kernel.
> >
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> > Ps.
> > I am using ms mail 6. and wouldn't it be nice if i could just click
> reply
> > and it would send my response
> > to the linux-c........
> >
> > rather than ....
> >
> > or is there a different email browser set up for this mail list?
> >
> 
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