Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!rex!uflorida!mephisto!utkcs2!alphard!battle
From: battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Utility to keep all typed command lines.
Summary: Does such a beast exist?  If not, how do I write it?
Message-ID: <1527@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 90 16:52:55 GMT
Sender: news@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
Reply-To: battle@alphard.cs.utk.edu (David Battle)
Organization: CS Dept -- University of TN, Knoxville
Lines: 13

I would like to have an accounting utility which will keep not only
the name of the command run but also the arguments, especially for commands
typed at a shell by a human (as opposed to coming from a command file).
Is there an existing utility which does this?  If not, can someone provide
me with info on how to begin writing such a utility?  I would presume it would
be similar to "ps", digging through kmem to get the command strings, or perhaps
it would be better to make a front end to a shell (similar to what script
does)?  Comments?  By the way, this is for Ultrix and doesn't have to be
portable to other flavors of unix.

						-David L. Battle
						 battle@battle.esd.ornl.gov
						 battle@utkux1.utk.edu