topic Terminal Sniffing in Operating System - HP-UX

Terminal Sniffing

Andrew Beal — Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:56:32 GMT

G'day all,

I was wondering if anyone know's of a way to view someone elses terminal session from within hp-ux.

I was thinking of something like

#who

user pts/tx

#sniff /dev/pts/tx

and be able to see the same output on your terminal, that is getting displayed to the users terminal as well?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

Re: Terminal Sniffing

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 00:02:04 GMT

Hi Andrew,

There isn't a default command or tool available with the OS.

"SharedX" can help you to share X-windows across systems. You should have it on your application CDs.

If the user starts 'script' program and outputs to a file that is readable by you, you can 'tail -f' it and see all the printable characters. Man 'script' for more information.

-Sri

Re: Terminal Sniffing

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:30:00 GMT

We can use screen tool for this. It is good to monitor on web-based one.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=703464

Some more ways discussed there.

Re: Terminal Sniffing

Hoang Chi Cong_1 — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:26:48 GMT

Hello Andrew Beal.
I have some suggestion for you:
You can use "w" command or "uptime" (see the manpage)
Also refer to this link. You can find more!

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=703464

Goodluck to you.

Jimkery.

Re: Terminal Sniffing

Steve Post — Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:01:54 GMT

DoubleVision is a commercial product that let's you see what you want on others terminals.

It runs solely on the hpux box you are on. It allow you to see other peoples sessions on that hpux box.

Googlesearch "DoubleVision".

steve