On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 11:12:06AM -0500, Brian Kelsay wrote:
On Linux, can't you just run ssh with an option for logging?
The recommendation to use the "script" command is right on the money.
The other thing I expect is in wide use for this sort of thing is GNU screen. It has toggle-able logging, as well as a host of other very cool features (my recent favorite: the ability to copy-and-paste from the scrollback buffer without needing to use the mouse).
If I start a shell session to do anything but the most trivial task, and don't start a screen session either around it or within it, I invariably regret not running screen. It's a real use-it-all-the-time-every-day type of tool.
Between 'script' and 'screen', the bases are pretty well covered. I expect any command-line junkie who uses anything else (in a Unix-ish environment, at least) either has some very unusual and specific needs, or doesn't know about these two tools.