Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
Hello, On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:21:49PM -0500, John Jolet wrote: On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there. I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now. How can she do this? well, what the big companies do, is run squid, and point the users to it (or another proxy server). You could also, assuming this is all local, is write a cron job that tars up the contents of his .mozilla directory periodically. i think an proxy-server is the best method for doing this, but don't forget to use an lucent proxy. btw why do you need to keep track of your son?? don't trust him ;-) greetz alex -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
Hi, My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there. I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now. How can she do this? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:17, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there. I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now. How can she do this? well, what the big companies do, is run squid, and point the users to it (or another proxy server). You could also, assuming this is all local, is write a cron job that tars up the contents of his .mozilla directory periodically. Thanks, Mark -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:17 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there. off the top of my head, you could either 1) use a traffic monitor. Not ethereal, its too big!! something like tcpflow, piped to grep to print out GET and POST lines. You'd have to ssh to the actual machine if you're using switches; or 2) use netstat, although this may only give you hosts, and not full paths. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get dates and times as well as specific links... (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;) -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:36, Iain Buchanan wrote: or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get dates and times as well as specific links... (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;) what I do for evil monitoring of MY kids (since i've got one mac and one windows machine for them) is to have my home router mail me it's logs once a week. I can see what urls each machine went to and when. And most routers allow you to block certain sites.pokemon.com comes to mind! -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
On Tuesday October 4 2005 8:36 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get dates and times as well as specific links... (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;) Clearing the history file is a well know practice for today's teens. I have one and I'm here to testify. :) -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring
Mark I went about it another way. I installed ipcop as my router/gateway and an ipcop extra called cop+. It does great filtering - stopping much bad stuff using dansguardian. On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 18:17:19 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there. I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now. How can she do this? Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
