script command hung on exit

[Marco Queirolo]

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.

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Marco

What is your command?

Paula

[Pete Randall]

Paula,

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

Pete

[Jordan Bean]

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

[Marco Queirolo]

Right,

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

Regards.

[Jordan Bean]

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 &

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

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

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

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