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Re: Monitoring tools to use on an account



AG wrote:
Hi all

I'm facing a bit of a delicate issue: I have created an account on my machine for someone staying with us, and I have strong suspicions that he is engaging in on-line behaviour that he is not supposed to be doing.

Can anyone recommend a tool thatb I can install, that can monitor his on-line activity - specifically sites he visits and how much time he spends on them? A key logger might also be useful to monitor his activities.

I'd need something that will mail me reports to my account without these being transparent to him.

Any suggestions, please?


Unless I am mistaken, the issue got sidetracked to 'whether one ought to monitor'. But I have this situation: a person uses this laptop when I am not around and yesterday the system shutdown twice while this person was using it. All I see in syslog is:

Jul 29 16:28:26 debian gdm[3069]: WARNING: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 Jul 29 16:28:26 debian /usr/sbin/gpm[2894]: *** info [daemon/processrequest.c(42)]:
Jul 29 16:28:26 debian /usr/sbin/gpm[2894]: Request on 6 (console 8)
Jul 29 16:28:26 debian /usr/sbin/gpm[2894]: *** info [daemon/processrequest.c(42)]:
Jul 29 16:28:26 debian /usr/sbin/gpm[2894]: Request on 6 (console 8)
Jul 29 16:30:00 debian Modtemp[2577]: =[getty 0.0]=> Thu Jul 29 16:30:00 2010 T2=C T3=C busy=81% MHz=1.50 (240)
Jul 29 16:31:40 debian acpid: client 9593[0:0] has disconnected
Jul 29 16:31:40 debian shutdown[24154]: shutting down for system halt

This person knows nothing of commands or VT's so it was just internet browsing activity. I would sure like to know what happened.

Hugo


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