application and user logging

[Petros Triantafyllidis]

> I have a Unix-only solution that involves wrappering all the binaries
> whose usage you want to track so that rather than running the actual
> binary, the user first runs a small C program that sends a UDP packet to a
> tracking host and then execs the real binary.  It's not robust in the face
> of users trying to intentionally bypass it, but it works pretty well
> otherwise.

This is what I intended to do but using scripting language instead. The
limitation you mentioned prevented me from integration, but finally I
don't think is much important.
 
> I have no idea if the same thing would work for Windows, since I know very
> little about Windows and am interested in knowing less, but it's a pretty
> small program.

We made a first attempt to use a wrapper also here, but the results were
not very encouraging. However I got your point and I agree ;-)

> It's not bundled up for distribution, but I can mail you a tarball of the
> code if that sounds interesting.  Warning:  The only documentation is the
> comments at the beginnings of the source files, but it's all pretty short
> and easy to understand.
 
I would appreciate it. I think I will manage to understand it. 
Thanks to both of you for your answers,
Petros

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