Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 <del@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>
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