How to find what my users are executing ?

[Champak Chowdhuri]

Hi,

My requirement is I want to check what my users are executing. Users can have any shell.

Is there any way to collect them in a file which can not be edited by any user.

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Hi,

try using

# w -w

see the man page of w for more detial.

-Niraj

[kish_1]

try enabling acct
also check acctcms.
I am not sure about it

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

You need to set up system accounting. This link gives a very good description.

http://data.fas.harvard.edu/micah_altman/unix/sysacct.pdf

[Steve Steel]

Hi

Michael is correct if you want to really follow it.


For a snapshot. 2 UNIX95 lines

UNIX95= ps -e -o pcpu,state,ruser,vsz,pid,ppid,args |head -n 1
UNIX95= ps -e -o pcpu,state,ruser,vsz,pid,ppid,args|tail -n +2 |sort -rnk2


Steve steel