Hi,
First of all sorry for opening a new thread for this. I had posted my question few days back in an old thread, but didn't get an answer
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3041238
I tried setting HISTTIMEFORMAT in .bashrc. But, didn't work as I expected.
HISTTIMEFORMAT=`date "+%Y-%b-%d::%Hh:%Mm:%Ss "`
If I set this in .bashrc, history always show time of user login, no matter when these commands are executed. I would like to get the actual time when user executed those commands.
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[mohammed@41 ~]$ date
Thu Jan 31 21:11:37 IST 2008
[mohammed@41 ~]$ history | tail -2
1010 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s date
1011 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s history | tail -2
[mohammed@41 ~]$
[mohammed@41 ~]$ echo hello
hello
[mohammed@41 ~]$ echo hi
hi
[mohammed@41 ~]$ date
Thu Jan 31 21:12:01 IST 2008
[mohammed@41 ~]$ history | tail -6
1010 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s date
1011 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s history | tail -2
1012 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s echo hello
1013 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s echo hi
1014 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s date
1015 2008-Jan-31::21h:09m:52s history | tail -6
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Depending on default history setting is not always good. Commands you executed in the present console will be written to your history file (.bash_history by default) only when logout from that console. (Even though 'history' command will show you all commands you executed, it will be written to the file only when you logout). And I think, it wont be written if you just close the session or you are timed out from the session.
Also, what if you are logged into the same machine as same user from different consoles. How the commands will be written into the .bash_history file. I haven't checked this, but you can test it very easily.
So, what I am trying to do is, execute "history -a newhistfile" frequently within a script. This should write all commands executed in the present console to newhistfile. Unfortunately, this command is not working when I kept this in a script.
In short, what I want is to log all activities by every users.
Any ideas??. And any other way to do this??.
Regards,
Mohammed.
