Re: History Files

[gavina () CSIS GVSU EDU (gavina () CSIS GVSU EDU)]

On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, audit wrote:

> Greeting's,
>
> I admin a few Linux servers and have a question about user's .bash_history
> files. The users on the systems keep their history files but I would like
> to have what they type logged to /root/history/$user_history
> I know that this is not polite on my end or the other co-admin's but we
> need to know what our users are doing at all times. These are slackware
> boxes and some RedHat boxes.
>
> Thanks

tail -f /home/user/.bash_history > /root/history/user.history

Even if the user has "HISTFILESIZE=0", it will still output the history
when the user logs out.

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