bashreadline 8 "2016-01-28" "USER COMMANDS"
NAME
bashreadline - Print entered bash commands system wide. Uses Linux eBPF/bcc.
SYNOPSIS
bashreadline DESCRIPTION
bashreadline traces the return of the readline() function using uprobes, to
show the bash commands that were entered interactively, system wide. The
entered command may fail: this is just showing what was entered.
This program is also a basic example of eBPF/bcc and uprobes.
This makes use of a Linux 4.5 feature (bpf_perf_event_output());
for kernels older than 4.5, see the version under tools/old,
which uses an older mechanism
Since this uses BPF, only the root user can use this tool.
REQUIREMENTS
CONFIG_BPF and bcc.
EXAMPLES
Trace bash commands system wide: # bashreadline
FIELDS
TIME Time of the command (HH:MM:SS).
PID Process ID of the bash shell.
COMMAND Entered command.
OVERHEAD
As the rate of interactive bash commands is expected to be very low (<<100/s),
the overhead of this program is expected to be negligible.
SOURCE
This is from bcc.
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc
Also look in the bcc distribution for a companion _examples.txt file containing example usage, output, and commentary for this tool.
OS
Linux
STABILITY
Unstable - in development.
AUTHOR
Brendan Gregg
SEE ALSO
opensnoop(8)