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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Subject: Re: Any way to log all process launches?
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On 2005-04-08 10:32, Richard Morse <remorse@partners.org> wrote:
> Hi!  I'm trying to track down an odd problem, for which it would be
> very useful to be able to have the computer keep track of every
> process that gets created -- ie, keep a list of every fork / exec that
> occurs.  Is this possible?

Yes, it is possible.  This is part of what `process accounting' does.

Look at the manpages of accton(8), lastcomm(1); then check the
accounting_enable knob in rc.conf(5) and /etc/defaults/rc.conf