Terminal Sniffing

[Andrew Beal]

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

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Hoang Chi Cong_1]

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.

[Steve Post]

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