topic Re: script command hung on exit in Operating System - HP-UX

script command hung on exit

Marco Queirolo — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:26:23 GMT

Hello,
I'm logging the user sesion with script command, put in /etc/profile, but when the user exit the session, the session is hung. The big problem is when this occurr in the console of the server. I'm using HPUX 10.20.

Best regards.

Re: script command hung on exit

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:31:52 GMT

Marco

What is your command?

Paula

Re: script command hung on exit

Pete Randall — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:34:40 GMT

Paula,

He's put the "script" command into the user's profile in order to log the entire session - see man script.

Pete

Re: script command hung on exit

Jordan Bean — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:54:10 GMT

How is `script` invoked in the profile? I would use 'exec script' at the very end.

Re: script command hung on exit

Marco Queirolo — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:09:42 GMT

Right,

At the end of the /etc/profile, I put the command " exec script "

Regards.

Re: script command hung on exit

Jordan Bean — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:49:18 GMT

Can you tell if the user has any jobs in the background? If these need to continue running, then they should be invoked in a manner that prevents their stdio from attaching to the terminal device. For example:

batch < scriptfile

batch <<.
commands &
.

at now < scriptfile

at now <<.
commands &
.

and a favorite on the forums:

nohup command /dev/null 2>&1 &

Re: script command hung on exit

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:35:40 GMT

Pete

Yes I got the Script bit but was wondering about the format.

By using ???exec script the initial shell is sacrificed and so when the user exits there is no shell to wrap up there session.

Try it without the exec.

Paula

Re: script command hung on exit

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Fri, 11 Oct 2002 06:38:00 GMT

Pete

Yes I got the Script bit but was wondering about the format.

By using ???exec script " the initial shell is sacrificed and so when the user exits there is no shell to wrap up their session.

Try it without the exec.

Also:-

Try not to use the console for anything else but critical system administration tasks - it is your last line of defence.

e.g. locked console and telnet not working = reboot

HTH

Paula