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From: rustcat@csli.Stanford.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
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Subject: Re: Need a "watching" program
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Date: 11 May 89 19:39:08 GMT
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In article <11680@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:

% An easy solution is to "cd; chmod 700 .". That will insure that no one can
% go into your home directory.

A lot of people have been taking potshots at me for having asked the original
question, so let me clarify. 

I know how to protect my files from being `rwx' by others.  That is not the
purpose I had in mind. I was just curious to find out if such a monitoring 
program is possible on Unix machines.  There can be non-paranoid uses for
this, such as keeping statistics on the usage of a particular program in
my home directory by others, for example.  

I gather that it's not possible to do this, short of overhauling the 
kernel.  Thank you.  We now return you to your scheduled programming.

						-- Vallury Prabhakar