[Leaplist] monitoring shell users

[Cecil Hornbaker]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:52 -0400, John Simpson wrote:
> howdy-
> 
> about a year ago i had a client in another country who wanted me to  
> SSH into his server and figure out what was wrong with how his qmail  
> system was configured. he sent me the IP, port, and root password in  
> a PGP-encrypted email, and while i did the work, he was in a jabber  
> window so we could talk about what i was seeing and ask questions in  
> real time.
> 
> anyway, he was running something on his system which allowed him to  
> see, in real time, the commands i was typing and the output from  
> them. i remember at the time he told me what the name of the program  
> was, but it's been over a year and i don't remember.
> 
> i have a client for whom i need to set up something like this, plus  
> i'd like to have it available on my own server in case i ever have a  
> need for it.
> 
> and google is giving me hundreds of links to programs with "monitor"  
> in the name, or copies of the man page for the "watch" command, and  
> all kinds of things... the search terms are too generic in this case  
> to be quickly useful.
> 
> does anybody know of such a program, and if so can you give me a  
> specific name and/or URL?

Previously sent email got bounced for some reason.  Anyway:

How about screen with the -xR option?

-Cecil