'history' so it shows all activty for user ?

[southof40]

[12.04 Server using bash]

I start multiple, simultaneous, ssh sessions via PuTTY logging on as the same user, 'foo'.

When I do

history

I see only those commands issued on that tty (I think - I certainly don't see all the command used by user foo across each of the ssh sessions).

Is there a way of getting around this ? I would like to have access to this history generated by each of the ssh sessions.

(I always seem to be looking for a command I know I issued under user foo several days ago by which time that ssh session has been closed)

[jualin]

[12.04 Server using bash]

I start multiple, simultaneous, ssh sessions via PuTTY logging on as the same user, 'foo'.

When I do

history

I see only those commands issued on that tty (I think - I certainly don't see all the command used by user foo across each of the ssh sessions).

Is there a way of getting around this ? I would like to have access to this history generated by each of the ssh sessions.

(I always seem to be looking for a command I know I issued under user foo several days ago by which time that ssh session has been closed)

I think that the way that the "history" command works is that it shows the history of the commands executed in that shell (your original local shell). Once ssh to another shell then you would have to execute the "history" command on that specific shell. I don't think that the history carries over between shells. In fact, if you have one local shell open and then open a new tab for another local shell, your history would be different for each tab.
Maybe someone else can confirm this but I am pretty sure that it is correct. Let me know what you find out.

[Habitual]

...Is there a way of getting around this ? I would like to have access to this history generated by each of the ssh sessions

run

history -c

across all ssh sessions before running "history" in any of them.

[jualin]

run

history -c

across all ssh sessions before running "history" in any of them.

Wouldn't that clear the history?

[lechien73]

Wouldn't that clear the history?

Yes, I think that the OP was looking for a way to log bash commands across all SSH sessions, not just clear the history file before each new login.

This askubuntu article might help:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/93566...rs-on-a-server

There are a few good Linux Journal articles to read in that answer as well.

[Habitual]

Wouldn't that clear the history?

OMG. SO SORRY.

it's too freaking early to be doing tech support.

[SlugSlug]

are you using different ssh keys?

The history is wrote to after successful logout, if you don't log out you wont see the history

[m_duck]

Assuming you use bash, you can add the following in your ~/.bashrc to save commands to history after each execution, rather than at the end of a session:

shopt -s histappend
[[ "${PROMPT_COMMAND}" ]] && PROMPT_COMMAND="$PROMPT_COMMAND;history -a" || PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"

Courtesy of the Arch Wiki - KDE