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Old 08-06-2018, 06:15 AM   #1
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kill process

hi,
if a user killed a process how can i find which user killed the pricess?in /var/log/messages is nothing.
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Old 08-06-2018, 06:18 AM   #2
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usually there is no way. Either the user who started (owned) that process or the root user was who killed. Probably the process can log itself if it got a signal, but it depends on the process.
 
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Old 08-06-2018, 06:19 AM   #3
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snoopy might be of help.
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Snoopy is a tiny library that logs all executed commands (+ arguments) on your system
https://github.com/a2o/snoopy
that is github, but check your repo first, they may already have it.
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