rootsh (1) Linux Manual Page
rootsh – a logging wrapper for shells
Synopsis
rootsh [OPTION]… [—] [COMMANDS]Description
Start a shell with logging of input/output. Rootsh must be started via sudo if you want to become root. It does not raise your privileges on it’s own. You can run rootsh as a standalone application if you only want to log your own user’s session. If you call rootsh with additional commands, these will be passed to the shell.- -i, –initial
- Make the shell a login shell
- -u, –user=USER
- Run the shell as a non-root user
- -f, –logfile=FILE
- Name of the file you want to write the logs (standalone only)
- -d, –logdir=DIR
- Directory where you want your logfile written (standalone only)
- –no-logfile
- Switch off logging to a file (standalone only)
- –no-syslog
- Switch off logging to syslog (standalone only)
- -h, –help
- Display this help and exit
- -V, –version
- Output version and capability information and exit
- —
- Stop scanning for command line options. Everything found after — will be passed to the shell with -c
No parameters mean start a rootshell
Examples
- sudo rootsh
- Start a logged root shell
- sudo rootsh -u oracle
- Start a logged shell in the context of user oracle.
- rootsh -f mysession.log –no-syslog
- Start a new shell for your user id, write protocol into mysession.log, do not send anything to syslog. This is identical to "script -f mysession.log"
- rootsh -i -u oracle lsnrctl stop
- Run command "lsnrctl stop" as user oracle. (this will call sh -c "lsnrctl stop")
- rootsh -i -u oracle — ls -l
- Run command "ls -l" as user oracle. (this will call sh -c "ls -l")
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to Corey Henderson <corman [at] cormander.com>See Also
The full documentation for rootsh can be found at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rootshCopyright
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