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View log

sam_111 — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:11:03 GMT

How to know what are the commands executed by a user on a file [Eg: touch]

Re: View log

Mark Grant — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:14:10 GMT

YOu can look in there .sh_history file in their home directory. This isn't great though as it doesn't keep much history in there by default.

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Steve Steel — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:22:04 GMT

Hi

There is a limit to the commands in history but

strings .sh_history|nl -ba

Will show what there is

Steve Steel

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Ravi_8 — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:22:38 GMT

Hi

.sh_history file under the user home directory contains the commands issued by user

Re: View log

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Mon, 19 Apr 2004 06:30:23 GMT

You can change the HISTSIZE environment variable as well.

sks

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sam_111 — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:29:56 GMT

hi guys

sorry for being late.

I know that I can view .h_history file. but what about date and time details i.e when a particular command is executed. is this available any where ?

regards,

sam

Re: View log

Bharat Katkar — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 05:00:43 GMT

Sam, as far as .sh_history is concerned u will be able to see only commands one has executed and i think that is the only way to see the executed commands.
U can try increasing the size of history by setting HISTSIZE variable to get more history.

Now if you see time stamp and other details then you have go through Log files. The most common one is /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log. I agree u won't be able to see all commands in that.

Further you can configure SYSLOGD daemon to log more details regarding the activities taking place on the System.

man syslogd will guide u properly in this regards.
That's all.