There is a way to show print history in Leopard (apart from Camino). Go to System Preferences, Print & Fax, double-click the printer to show its queue, then do Jobs->Show Completed Jobs. Perhaps this will be helpful with snooping on schoolchildren. Mark
On Feb 19, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Stuart Morgan wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 1:09 PM, Matthew Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm the system administrator for a school. Quite frequently, I get a >> request from a staff person to look at a student's browsing history. > > Before answering the technical question, let me ask the obligatory > mailing list question: "What are you really trying to accomplish"? If > the request is intended in to look for any kind of inappropriate > usage, then no answer we can give will actually help; it's trivial to > delete history entries from within Camino, and we don't make any > attempt to keep an audit-able or tamper-proof record. If that's the > intent, then what you'd really need to do is something server-side > (e.g., use proxies, and log information about requests there by the > requesting machine). > > However, if you are looking for information that there is no > expectation that students would want to hide (looking at how students > do research on the internet, or something of that nature): > >> Is there an easy way to get a report of the history in plain text or >> pdf. The "Print" option under File is not able to be selected when >> viewing the history. > > The history file is in the notoriously painful Mork format (which > we'll move away from once we have time). However, someone wrote a tool > to extract useful text from it, which is available at: > http://www.jwz.org/hacks/mork.pl > If you run it on ~/Library/Application\ Support/Camino/history.dat > you'll get most of the raw data you are looking for (especially if you > use -vv). > > -Stuart > _______________________________________________ > Camino mailing list > Camino@mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino > _______________________________________________ Camino mailing list Camino@mozdev.org https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/camino