From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12410 invoked from network); 31 Oct 1998 02:35:24 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 31 Oct 1998 02:35:24 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA05848; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:27:36 -0500 (EST) Resent-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:27:30 -0500 (EST) From: TGAPE! Message-Id: <199810302120.VAA18406@tgape.ed.vnet> Subject: Re: Question zsh To: gt5076c@cad.gatech.edu (Jason Price) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:20:36 +0000 (GMT) Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199810301546.KAA02602@gypsy.cad.gatech.edu> from "Jason Price" at Oct 30, 98 10:46:24 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"bKR53.0.dQ1.HMdEs"@math> Resent-From: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1913 X-Loop: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Jason Price wrote: > >>> I'm not sure what this means. >> I _think_ he wants each user to have a history file that they can't >> delete, as a sort of audit trail of their activities. > > IF this is the case, then the shell is the wrong place to be doing this. I > know Solaris has the capabilitys to do full process accounting. That is, > log detailed info about what processes people run. > > I would be willing to bet that other OS's have this capability. Linux has this ability by 2.1.125. User-side support is a little lacking right now, though. (Course, not much is needed. I've only recently gotten this kernel, and I haven't upgraded enough of my software I can run it full-time yet. Because of this, I haven't had much time to play with it.) However, it doesn't contain much in the way of command-line flags; I think I'd like to see the option of having a separate file store command lines, so that you could have arbitrary-length records which don't slow down processes which don't care about them. Ed