Re: How to get closing times of applications using shell

vinod wrote:
Janis Papanagnou wrote:

I guess there might be more appropriate solutions if we knew about
the "Why" of this request.
i want to monitor a user with the above 5 apps for example. and i would
like to know how long each app is being used and when.. ie if a user
launches a browser(or any app for that matter) at 5 different times
during a session, i would like to note down the duration of each
session of the browser(or app). for this.. i need to know the starting
and closing times.

You write that you want to monitor _a_ user, so I assume that you
don't need to change the complete system environment for all users.
Elsethread you write about the user's consent and cooperation, so
there's also no need to use a restricted shell (a shell running in
restricted mode, e.g. rksh).

although initially i would like to monitor for 5 apps, i would like to
do this for all major applications on a user's system. so i guess for a
newbie like me, the solution provided by you would be difficult to
handle if the number of apps to be monitored increases.

Please provide some numbers; how many applications do you expect?

If the number is high - but, frankly, it's hard to believe that you
want to monitor more than 20 applications - you can also generate the
wrapper scripts. If so you must either have a list of files that you
want to consider or a list of directories with binaries (which will
result to a *very* large amount of binaries), and write a generator
script.

i appreciate ur concern. would be looking forward to more solutions
from you.

Why more solutions?

Create directories (if not already present) ~user/bin to contain the
wrapper programs and ~user/tmp to accumulate the logfiles (for privacy
reasons not in /tmp), and adjust access permissions.

Open the users profile ~user/.profile and find the line where PATH
is defined; add ~user/bin to the PATH as in

PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH

Or tell us if you need help on a generator script, otherwise built the
few wrapper scripts manually, as already outlined upthread.

Janis


thanks a ton,
vinod

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