Monitoring Real-time User Logins In Ubuntu 8.04 Server

‘whowatch’ is a console, interactive users and process monitoring tool. It displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time. Besides the standard informations such as login name, tty, host and the user’s processes, the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is also shown. A particular user can be selected and his processes tree may be viewed. Trees are displayed with an additional column that shows the owner of each process. In the process tree mode SIGINT and SIGKILL signals can be sent to the selected process. Killing processes is just as simple and fun as deleting lines on the screen [information from somewhere on the www]. To install ‘whowatch’:

sudo apt-get install whowatch