[8756] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: application and user logging
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petros Triantafyllidis)
Thu Jun 21 03:22:20 2001
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:12:56 +0300 (EEST)
From: Petros Triantafyllidis <trian@itc.auth.gr>
To: info-afs@transarc.com
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> I have a Unix-only solution that involves wrappering all the binaries
> whose usage you want to track so that rather than running the actual
> binary, the user first runs a small C program that sends a UDP packet to a
> tracking host and then execs the real binary. It's not robust in the face
> of users trying to intentionally bypass it, but it works pretty well
> otherwise.
This is what I intended to do but using scripting language instead. The
limitation you mentioned prevented me from integration, but finally I
don't think is much important.
> I have no idea if the same thing would work for Windows, since I know very
> little about Windows and am interested in knowing less, but it's a pretty
> small program.
We made a first attempt to use a wrapper also here, but the results were
not very encouraging. However I got your point and I agree ;-)
> It's not bundled up for distribution, but I can mail you a tarball of the
> code if that sounds interesting. Warning: The only documentation is the
> comments at the beginnings of the source files, but it's all pretty short
> and easy to understand.
I would appreciate it. I think I will manage to understand it.
Thanks to both of you for your answers,
Petros
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