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what is it? conserver and console

I was looking at the software on sunfreeware, and I was wondering what this is? Is it kind of like a "text" version of pcanywhere? Would it allow me to log a sessions terminal screen on the server...which would allow me to "replay" it at a later date? If it's not...that's kind of what I'm looking for. After a session has ended, I'd like to run a screen capture "type" program, to replay what kind of activity was done.

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc9.html

http://www.conserver.com/docs/conserver.man.html

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Nukfror

I wouldn't compare it to VNC or pcanywhere as it servers a somewhat different purpose - you kinda can but I wouldn't.

Conserver is just what it says it does - say you have a terminal server with 20 hosts connected to it. By themselves, term servers ~generally~ don't have a history capability for scrolling back in time to see what may have happened between right now. So you only see what happens on the console from the moment you connect to the term server for a specific machine.

With conserver, this little annoying "gap" in monitoring/history-auditing is fixed because conserver collects the history of all consoles it is configured to watch. You also connect to the various server consoles through conserver. And multiple people can view a console at once so they can all see what's going on.

ramble

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I haven't been able to get back to you on this question...had the weekend "bizzies" :)

Anyway...

terminal server...is that set-up automatically by Solaris? When you say "terminal server" are you talking about the pts/X connections?

Does this application work with ssh and/or telnet sessions?

What I'm after is a log "by pts session". Lets say you have a Solaris user account that 5 people share, to do a particular task. The proprietary software installed on the Solaris box is bound by that "shared account"....but, as you know, each user has a unique pts/X session. And...they can always "su" to root, which spawns another pts session. I simply want logs of the pts session...or at least a history file based on the pts session.

sharing a history file is inefficient. ('cause we all use the same user name to perform tasks)

I appreciate your input

ramble

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I'm not sure why I said that "su" 'ing spawns another pts session. just ignore that statement.

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