[Gllug] Stupid shell question

[Jackson, Harry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hearns [mailto:John.Hearns at cern.ch]
> 
> I was just having some idle thoughts (as usual).
> 
> What I was thinking of is that we are deploying some new machines.
> There is a default set of software (RPMs) installed.
> We were just discussing at a meeting what if there was 
> software missing
> which people normally use, and expect to be there on the new machines.
> 
> I've looked at the sources for bash, and it would be very easy to
> put in a line to send a message to syslog (or wherever) when someone
> uses a command which is not found. 
> But I would have to patch/recompile all the shells on the machine -
> (ash bash ksh tcsh zsh) and I don't think its worth the effort for
> the information we would get back.
> As I say, I was just idly wondering about a smarter way to do this.

My 2pw

You could write a small perl script that tunnels STDERR into a file. I do
not mean completely redirect. I believe in Perl you can have STDERR or
STDOUT go to more than one place using pipes If you put a filter in this you
can then sort it accordingly.

H


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