[gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going
on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and
see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe
wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there.

   I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through
their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now.

   How can she do this?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[John Jolet]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going
> on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and
> see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe
> wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there.
>
>    I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through
> their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now.
>
>    How can she do this?
well, what the big companies do, is run squid, and point the users to it (or 
another proxy server).
You could also, assuming this is all local, is write a cron job that tars up 
the contents of his .mozilla directory periodically.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[z3rosix]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:21:49PM -0500, John Jolet wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going
> > on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and
> > see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe
> > wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there.
> >
> >    I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through
> > their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now.
> >
> >    How can she do this?
> well, what the big companies do, is run squid, and point the users to it (or 
> another proxy server).
> You could also, assuming this is all local, is write a cron job that tars up 
> the contents of his .mozilla directory periodically.

i think an proxy-server is the best method for doing this, but don't
forget to use an lucent proxy.

btw why do you need to keep track of your son??
don't trust him ;-)


greetz


alex
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[Iain Buchanan]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:17 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going
> on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and
> see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe
> wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there.

off the top of my head, you could either 1) use a traffic monitor. Not
ethereal, its too big!! something like tcpflow, piped to grep to print
out GET and POST lines.  You'd have to ssh to the actual machine if
you're using switches; or 2) use netstat, although this may only give
you hosts, and not full paths.

HTH,
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[Iain Buchanan]

or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home
directory.  If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get
dates and times as well as specific links...

(Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[John Jolet]

On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:36, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home
> directory.  If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get
> dates and times as well as specific links...
>
> (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;)
what I do for evil monitoring of MY kids (since i've got one mac and one 
windows machine for them) is to have my home router mail me it's logs once a 
week.  I can see what urls each machine went to and when.   And most routers 
allow you to block certain sites.....pokemon.com comes to mind!
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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[Joe Menola]

On Tuesday October 4 2005 8:36 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home
> directory.  If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get
> dates and times as well as specific links...
>
> (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring applies ;)

Clearing the history file is a well know practice for today's teens. I have 
one and I'm here to testify. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla usage monitoring

[Nick Rout]

Mark I went about it another way. I installed ipcop as my router/gateway
and an ipcop extra called cop+. It does great filtering - stopping much
bad stuff using dansguardian.


On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 18:17:19 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:

> Hi,
>    My wife is asking how she can keep track of where our son is going
> on the web. We're all Linux based. She can hang out here on her PC and
> see that he's using mozilla from something simple like 'top', but whe
> wants to be able to monitor where he goes and when he goes there.
> 
>    I know that big companies do this sort of thing, possibly through
> their DNS servers, etc., but we don't run DNS here right now.
> 
>    How can she do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
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