checking history remotely

[heiowge]

A couple of months back I caught my daughter googling naughty things so I pulled her internet.

She has finally earned it back (albeit with a few filters in place). What I want to know is... is there any way to get her computer to email me her history every time she logs on? That way I can keep an eye without her knowing. Her google search requests would be nice to know (as it's how I caught her last time).

[nelz]

You could set up a script, called from ~/.profile or the desktop's autostart feature, that emailed you the history files for whatever browsers she uses.

You'd also need to find a way to disable any private browsing features in those browsers.

Or you could set up a proxy server on your computer, which means all her activity would be logged there, even in private mode.

[heiowge]

Good advice. Just one question... what's a script?

Seriously though, all that is far beyond me. I was hoping there was a program or setting already out there that could do it.

[nelz]

There is, a proxy server

[Ram]

There is, a proxy server

You need 1slipperyfish friend sqid.

[wyliecoyoteuk]

Dnasguardian is pretty good, we use it as part of our endian firewall

[nelz]

Isn't DansGuardian just a filter? I thought you needed a separate proxy server for it. If you want to monitor web requests, I'd use something small like TinyProxy which is a non-caching proxy, it passes the request through but also logs them.

[wyliecoyoteuk]

Dansguardian does need a proxy, yes.
You can run Squid with it, and you can run them on the local machine
http://chris.olstrom.com/howto/setup-co ... sguardian/