[Info-vax] Logging image activations

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In article <GsKFm.12422$U5.180096 at newsb.telia.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Now, I have an old systems with a large amount of
>applications images (EXE's). I'd like to know/log
>in some way what EXE's are (still) in use.
>
>I guess one could enable image-logging in the accounting
>but that would also log COPY.EXE and and so on, right ?
>
>One could add some logging to the code itself, but that
>implies rebuilding all EXE's which I'd prefer not to do.
>
>I have searched for some by-file (or better by-directory)
>logging to enable, but not comed up with something usable.
>
>I also thought about some routine scanning through the
>processes and log the active/running image, but that would
>be "polling" and one might miss some short activations.
>
>Hm, maybe some ACL on the files to enable auditing of
>"execute" access ? That would be easy to add to the files
>anyway, I'm not sure about how easy it is to get reports.
>Maybe some mangling of the ANA/AUD output would do...
>
>Any thoughts ?
>
>Maybe image loggin in accounting is the easiest and make
>sure to make a "set acc/new" regulary (and run some ACC
>reports to list the images)...

If you want to know which images are in use, I'd go with the last option.

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