[SunHELP] Solaris Statistics

[Thornton Prime]

Grindell, Joan M. wrote:
> I come from a mainframe background.  We had a product that kept fairly
> detailed information about the activity on the system and wrote the
> information to a file.  
> you could find out such things a who accessed a file at what time and what
> type of access (read, write,..)
>  
> Does anyone know of if there is any thing similiar to this accounting
> function on a Solaris box?

This is all covered by the BSM and auditing capabilities:

   http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-0365/6mg5vpmk3?a=view

We use it to log every exec and every file write by users. You can get even more fine grained than that.

thornton