monitor tty

[Kenan Erdey]

hi;

is there any way of monitoring what a user is doing ?

thanks.

[Ninad_1]

You can do a who -uR to understand the tty no of the user login and then do
ps -aft pts/11 [ if say the tty is pty/11 ]

Regards,
Ninad

[Oviwan]

Hi,
in addition you can take a look to the history file ($HOME/.history)

Regards

[Kenan Erdey]

hımm, i want to monitor lively. not something after having been done.

[Ninad_1]

Then you can enable accounting -
man 1M acct
But note that enabling accounting takes up a lot of space which you need to monitor.
Or you can write you scripts as mentioned in the above which will run thru cron every interval and log to a file. Also depends on whatt all you want to monitor/log.

Regards,
Ninad

[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

the command 'script' may be your friend - it records a tty-session to a file; see 'man script'.

mfG Peter

[Kenan Erdey]

imagine,
we logged in with pts/2

if we run script -a /dev/pts/2 from a user's terminal( it must be root to write to pts i think) we can see what the user is doing.

but i must do it from user's shell. and user must be root.

there must be a way of seeing what is sent to another user's tty.

any ideas ?
thanks.

[Sivakumar TS]

Hi,

what about running

#whodo

This will list the users currently loggedin and the processes being run by them,

Regards,

Siva.

[Patrick Wallek]

I do not know of a way with native unix to do what you require. There is a product called DoubleVision that allows you to monitor, or even interact with, a logged in terminal session.

Here is the web site:
http://www.tridia.com/products/dv.html

This is a product that you have to buy. It is NOT free. It does work very well though.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Look into a product called "DoubleVision PRO".

http://www.tridia.com/products/index.html