The equivalent on MacOS is Time Machine, as I understand it (which is not very much as I don't understand Macs at all), but I'm not aware of any Linux application that does this either. I like Peter's idea of using inotify though, you could whip up a 10 liner with the python language bindings to record all file accesses in under an hour.
jdub, zeitgeist is a terrible project name for them, too many better things with that name for it to get a page one ranking :) On 13 July 2010 22:19, Del <[email protected]> wrote: > > Someone asked me today, as they often ask me about things Linux, if I had a > Linux replacement for their favourite "journal" app that they run on their > (windows) PC. I asked what that journal app did, and was told: > > "You can set it to track when you open files of various types [in other > applications] and how long they are open for.". Further quizzing revealed > that you can set it to record when those files were opened, saved, closed, > and when and where any saved and backup copies were stored. > > I mentioned the security impacts of such an application, or even the fact > that such an application was possible, and left it at that. > > -- > Del > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
