Is there a way to watch what commands are being executed in another shell, as they're being executed? Both shells are bash, and I have root access, if that matters. I can't install any extra software, and I don't want the other shell to have to do anything special like run screen.
Situation: I'm remotely logged into a Linux machine, and so is a coworker. I would like to see the commands she is running in her shell. I know that I could use some combination of watch
and ps
to see any commands that take longer than a second to run, but I don't believe that would help with very short commands.
Best Answer
Since you're root, you could always
strace -f -e execve -p her_bash_pid
. The-f
is necessary because her shell will fork a new process before theexec
, but this also means that you'll see anything that the child processes execute as well.