It is very important to know what are the activities for applications and users in linux operating system. This will be very useful in later time or in case of problems. For this purpose, i would recommend psacct tools to be install. psacct is a free monitoring program to monitor users and applications activity on linux server. This program will display how long user accessing the server, what command are they issuing, how many processes and display logs for commands.
If you are runninng Linux CentOS or Redhat, you should use the following command to install pssacct :
[root@test ~]# yum install psacct -y
By default psacct is disabled on Linux. We should manually start it :
[root@test ~]# systemctl start psacct
To enable psacct on your next reboot use the following command :
[root@test ~]# systemctl enable psacct
Check the status of psacct
[root@test ~]# systemctl status psacct
Other usage from that come in psacct or acct package :
ac command prints the statistics of user logins/logouts (connect time) in hours.
lastcomm command prints the information of previously executed commands of user.
accton commands is used to turn on/off process for accounting.
sa command summarizes information of previously executed commands.
last and lastb commands show listing of last logged in users.