QUESTION:
My customer has asked if there is a way to "spool
the console" dialogue to a file.
He is looking for the equivalent CMS "spool console" capability. SMIT
provides this audit trail via the smit.log file. Is there any way to do
the same with the console session?
His second question is very similar. Is it possible for the AIX Sys
Administrator to see what one of his users is typing when they report a
problem? He mentioned this capability in a DEC product called "spy". Is
there an obvious way to do this with basic AIX functionallity, or are
there any third party products that you are aware of that would provide
this functionality?
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A: You can send a copy of the console dialog to a file by using the
following command:
ksh -iv 2>&1 tee /tmp/console.log
This command will need to be run at the console before console
messages will be saved. All user input, and command output will
be saved to the file '/tmp/console.log'
If the administrator would like to monitor the input of another user,
she could have the customer issue a similar command. For example the
user could issue the following command:
ksh -iv 2>&1 tee /tmp/user.log
The system administrator could then open a new window and issue the
following command:
tail -f /tmp/user.log
This will cause all of the user's commands and their corresponding
results to be displayed in the system administrator's new window.
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