GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 15707
RFE: Applet for monitoring login's, load, su's, etc...
Last modified: 2006-02-13 07:28:36 UTC
Package: not yet existant Version: 0.0 Severity: wishlist Is there a good way of monitoring who's logged in to a system and what they're doing (like cpu load, mem usage, disk usage, net load, etc.) in applet (or similar) form? The primary goal is to be able to quickly identify who'se the cpu/memory hog and kill their process. Security notifications would be a nice plus. Presently I use tick-a-stat to watch login's and su's for security concerns, watch netsheild to let me know of outside attacks, and watch six (cpu, mem, swap, hd1, hd2, net) load applets for usage getting high. However, then I have to run top to see who the cpu/memory hog is and get their pid. If the system is swapping heavily, it can take minutes to do this. I'd like to make this more routine. I could imagine a little applet that shows user names for who's logged on. Then putting your mouse over or clicking would give usage stats on them. Clicking could open gtop on their processes. If they were using a log of some resource their names could change colors, Double clicking while using lots of resources would kill their job. And if they do suspicous activities (like su), their background could flash. Double clicking while flashing would kill thier login entirely. I tried swallowing gw, but that didn't work. I suppose I could write a script that would periodically change a file that gmailwatch, tickastat, or slashapp would do something with. Any other suggestions? Thanks, -- Eric Ford eford@princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~eford/ eford@mad.scientist.edu ------- Bug moved to this database by debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-01-27 16:58 ------- This bug was previously known as bug 15707 at http://bugs.gnome.org/ http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15707 Originally filed under the gnome-applets product and general component. The original reporter (eford@princeton.edu) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, debbugs-export@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-applets-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Heh, I like some of this. We could call it big-brother_applet :) I'm not sure all of it would fly, but still. I do like the idea of cpu hogs, although I think automatically nicing their processes would be friendlier.
Moving to GNOME 2.
Not to be negative, but this sounds like a usability and accessibility nightmare :-)
This is quite an old bug, I'm marking it WONTFIX since that seems to be the case. Reopen if required.