Session recording

Kenny Lussier klussier at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 13:41:13 EDT 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
> "Kenny Lussier" <klussier at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > Unfortunately, is isn't 100% reliable. As you pointed out, there are
>  > a lot of ways around these things, such as executing a script that
>  > executes a bunch of commands. The only thing that will be logged is
>  > the execution of the script, not commands that the script
>  > calls.  This is where process accounting comes in.
>
>  You could always have bash run with -x turned on.  But that's likely
>  to be *really* ugly :)

That was one of the first things that was suggested. And summarily dismissed :-)

There is a very fine line between "gathering as much information as
possible" and "getting hammered with too much crap to process". We
don't want to go too far with this, since that can easily cause
important information to be lost in the noise.

C-Ya,
Kenny


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