Monitor users activity on Linux system with psacct
Posted On October 1, 2019
We will look into tracking users activities on Linux – CentOS or REL system in particular. psacct is application for monitoring users activities on the system. In many cases you would like to know what was done on the system, while someone else working on it.
1. Lest install psacct utilitie
yum install psacct
2. Lets make sure service is started and running
systemctl enable psacct
systemctl start psacct
3. display statistics about users connect time
ac
4. display totals for each day
ac -d
5. display time totals for each user
ac -p
6. find out which command users executed last
lastcomm myuser