[NTLUG:Discuss] Task Logging in Linux?

[David Stanaway]

With a small dose of STFW
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Process-Accounting.html

Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>   
>> Way back in my Convex days we had a way to log every task run, by whom
>> and when.  I've since forgotten how that was done and don't even know if
>> its possible to do in Linux.  Is it?  If so, how?
>>
>> I ask because I've got an annoying small 'something' popping up on the
>> screen periodically and going away in a flash.  It's just barely there,
>> but annoying since I don't know what it is, and want to find out.
>>
>> chkrootkit and rkhunter run clean, and there are no telltale oddities of
>> rootkits, so that looks to be not a problem.
>>     
>
> Any ideas on how to do this?
>
> ...Ken
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