Re: monitoring user processes

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Steven Day <scd104 ecs soton ac uk> writes:

> For example, I am planning to use the functionality of inotify to
> monitor document access/creation etc in a user's home directory, and I
> would like a similar method for to monitor the execution of applications
> by the user. Ideally I'd like a notification system like inotify is for
> files, but with notifications of programs being executed or completing
> their execution. Does any such system exist? 

A hack that might work would be to use inotify to monitor /usr/bin and
other directories with binaries.

BTW, does your project haave a web page? It sounds interesting, I have
read a couple of papers with similar ideas.

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Ole Laursen
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