Logging shell history on Solaris.

The audit department wants us to log all shell commands entered by root. So I need to log root's shell history on Solaris 8, in all of ksh, csh and bash.

Has anyone actually done this? Is there a built-in mechanism I've overlooked? Any speculation on how it might be done if you haven't done it? I can't seem to get a named pipe to work.

When ya done ransackin' his room, grabbin any damn thing that shines.

My Gudangs have arrived! \o/ And I didn't get stung by Customs and Excise. Three cartons, £45.57 from mykretek.com. I am never smoking a Djarum again if I can help it.

The UK media has discovered the Wikipedia US Senate/House vandalism controversy. I did an interview with the Guardian today, to appear tomorrow in paper and online editions. I expect much more of this. We are currently ridiculously popular — today's Alexa rank is no. 17, which is to say the seventeenth most popular website in the world, and our reach is 32,000 per million, which means 3.2% of all Internet users today visited Wikipedia. That's on a donation-funded site run by a nonprofit with one paid technical employee. Holy Fucking Shit.

Wikipedia's competition is not other encyclopedias, though we'd love to be good enough. It's other websites. You can dredge through Google looking for a useful summary of something amidst the ad-plastered shopping portals, or you can look on Wikipedia first. So the more bad press we get, the more curious hits we get and the more people realising it doesn't suck. This leads to a 50% rise in page hits in January alone. And 50% more readers means 50% more editors, which means 50% more somewhat brittle editors, which means 500% more wacky stupidity as we're flooded with unenculturated newbies. On Sunday night there was a brief wiki admin war (now jargonised as "wheel war") which Jimbo resolved by temporarily desysoping five people personally. Which is what you get when you admin people who haven't quite got the culture either. Every moment of every day is Interesting Times. I am so very glad not to be playing Judge Dredd any more.

I wonder if we will fall out of fashion before we're bigger than Google. Except without any fucking money.

Update: The Guardian article is up now: Doctoring the past - Wiki style. Not too bad at all, and my quote is accurate.