On 10/16/2012 11:50 AM, Alan Cox wrote: >> You can turn on "BSD Process Accounting" (which is in the kernel for >> Fedora) in the system profile. This causes the kernel to dump a record >> for each process spawned into the system logs. You will want to install >> and use a tool to analyze the logs and keep them to a reasonable size. > > BSD accounting is completely useless except for doing non-hostile > statistical analysis of system resource usage. If you want to fool it you > can do so trivially. > > Alan That is true, but I'm under the impression that this is not a truly *hostile* environment, but a small number of users being resistant to having their activities casually monitored. In this case, process accounting is passive and quiet in that the system starts it at boot time and it (tries) to catch everything done until turned off. I may be mis-reading the intent of the request, but it seems similar to a situation I have dealt with before, in that one user has a penchant to overstep the intent of the account, and who is somewhat neurotic about the "privacy" issue. In a business or academic situation, using semi-stealth methods for a time to check the situation seem appropriate. It all depends on the specifics of the situation. But it seems to me that process accounting may offer some help to the OP. -- G Wolfe Woodbury -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
