Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: am I in background? Message-ID: <3004@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 21:01:44 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3004 Posted: Thu Nov 7 21:01:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Nov-85 05:25:35 EST References: <129@wgivax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 13 > I am trying to implement an automatic audit trail mechanism which allows users > to enter optional comments at the beginning of major system utilities (sort, > awk, sed, etc.) The problem is that many of our users frequently use pipes, > file redirection, and background processing, thus making the task of knowing > when to query for a comment more complex. This fellow seems to be serious!! May I suggest that he instead implement aud_sort, aud_awk, aud_sed, or maybe even a general "aud" command to collect his audits and leave the system utilities themselves alone. And I thought I'd heard them all...