Keeping track of sysadmin actions

I’ve been using Unix for quite a while. A few decades, actually.

For all this time, I’ve always kept notes on the commands executed when installing and upgrading important services. For some reason, the very handy tool -“script” – has completely eluded me until now – it’s a little bit easier then logging from screen or tmux, invoked as simple as:

root@firewall1:/mnt# script install.log
Script started, file is install.log
root@vpn:/mnt# apt-get install openvpn
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
…
…
root@vpn:/mnt# exit
exit
Script done, file is install.log

What goes in the file is the entire session, just as in a tmux log but a little easier to get it going. I’ll add it to my documentation toolbox for sure!