[Gllug] Stupid shell question

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Emil Vaughan wrote:

> Easiest way I would have thought is to make a bash alias using the same name
> as the command, so that you can run a shell script which writes to a log and
> then runs the command. That can be trivially defeated of course, but so can
> Tet's method by a determined person.
> 
> So the solution depends a great deal on what you are trying to acheive I
> think.

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.





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