QUESTION:
Two questions:
1. Is there a way to recreate a user session on AIX 3.2.4? Other
than looking at their .history file? Or is there a way to capture
what they key in and later recreate that?
2. Is there a way to view a user screen from another terminal?
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A: There are several ways to recreate a user session in AIX. I will
list these possibilities below.
1) Issue the 'script ' command before you start your
session. This will create a file with the given filename that
contains all user input and the resulting system output and
errors.
To end your script session, you can use the 'd' keystroke.
At this point you could issue either of the following commands to
view this script file:
vi
pg
You may wish to create a small script which will clean up this file
before viewing it. 'UNIX Power Tools' by Jerry Peek and Assoc.
documents the following script called 'script.tidy':
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#¢/bin/sh
eval echo m=M b=H tr 'MH' '015010'
exec sed "s/$m$//
x
s/$b$b//
t x" $
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left square bracket right square bracket
carot symbol asterisk
After creating this file and issuing the command
'chmod +x script.tidy', you can view your script file with the
command 'script.tidy pg
2) You can use the 'capture ' command. This command will
dump the contents of the screen to ' each time the user
issues the 'p' keystroke. If you are ROOT, you can also
send a screen dump directly to another 'aixterm' as will be
described below.
Both 'capture' and 'script' are documented in InfoExplorer.
3) You can start a session with the following command:
ksh -iv 2>&1 tee /tmp/logfile
This will create a file named '/tmp/logfile'. Any user that
wishes to monitor your keystrokes and corresponding system output
can then open an aixterm on their display and issue the
following command:
tail -f /tmp/logfile
Multiple users can watch this file simultaneously. As you enter
commands on the screen, these user's will see output in a
somewhat 'choppy' but readable manner appear on their screen.
4) You can issue the 'w' command. Note what aixterms are currently
open (pts value). You can then issue the following command:
aixterm -d =81x25 &
You can issue this command multiple times to place an aixterm
on the screen of each user that wishes to monitor your commands.
You can now issue the 'w' command again to determine the 'pts'
value of each aixterm that has been added. With these values you
can issue the following command:
ksh -iv tee /dev/pts/X /dev/pts/Y
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