[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about History file

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> I do know that once, long ago, I tried to get bash to do proper command
> logging for our general-purpose gateway hosts that have 500+ users. It
> was a nightmare and I eventually concluded that history, logging and
> such things are 100% the province of the user and not the sysadmin. It
> just caused way more trouble than it solved. I suspect what you are
> looking for is very much in the same category.


Maybe "script" can be use to parse the syntax strings into a user-defined
log file from the root shell...

You'd most likely want to use the "AND" logic operator of the history
buffer to campare against the "script" generated file to get a
clean copy; or something like that.   Seems like I did something
like that years (decades) ago, but the memory is not what it use
to be..... It should not be that difficult to write something from
scratch.....

good_hunting....

James