On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Nadav Har'El <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012, Erez D wrote about "monitor hours": > > i am looking for a way to monitor the activity on my computer (i usually > > use it via vnc) > > I'm not sure how you use VNC - if you close VNC when you stop working, > you can look at the VNC server log on the remote machine. Assuming it's > Linux (it's linux-il after all ;-)), look at $HOME/.vnc/*.log. You'll > see entries like: > > Mon Oct 29 16:56:23 2012 > Connections: accepted: 1.2.3.4::2169 > > ... > > Mon Oct 29 18:19:09 2012 > Connections: closed: 1.2.3.4::2169 (Clean disconnection) > > > maybe let the screensaver log when it started and when it ends, so i > have a > > rough estimate of the hours i was working on the computer > > I'm sure there's a way to do this, but how to do it obviously depends on > your environment/screensaver. > > Two other options you can consider: > > 1. If you use a shell, tell it to keep history with timestamps (see your > shell's manual page on how to use it), then you can know when you ran > which command. > > 2. Turn on process accounting (a quick Google search turned up these > instructions: > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-log-user-activity-using-process-accounting.html > and see what commands were run, when. > > > looks interesting, but what if i have an open vnc connection from last week and open vi/eclipse/emacs and write new code. until i try to compile or do something else, none of the solutions above will work. the only way i see it is to catch kbd/mouse events ... how do i do that globaly for my display ? > -- > Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Nov 1 2012, 16 Heshvan > 5773 > [email protected] > |----------------------------------------- > Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |The space between my ears was > http://nadav.harel.org.il |intentionally left blank. >
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