CALC is my time tracker [WAS: Re: Time tracker (web-based)?

[Carl Helmers]

Hi Ken

Regarding your GNHLUG list message:

My personal method is not WWW based,  but could be:

I have been for years using the Libre Office (originally Open Office) 
CALC application to
track daily personal activities for the hell of it.   I start with a 
"masterlog" for each morning,
and after looking up some power cycle stuff [when I powered down prior 
night, boot time,
login time] The attached file is a "sanitized" [AKA remove any private 
stuff] version of a
master like the one from which I start each morning.

For me a key item [idiosyncrasy?] is when I turn on power each morning.  
I spent a lot of part time
fooling around to create a bash system to tag that time for me.  I have 
not yet found a good point
in Fedora 17's login shells in which to insert a line calling my BASEL 
system's "mark-epoch-of" bash
shell (MEO) that maintains my own format latest first 
/home/local/logs/BASEL-history file of epoch
records. This file has a single line per MEO call.  I created my BASEL 
acronym is from the phrase
"Bash Application for System Epoch Logging".

I have not totally figured out how  Fedora 17 works in startup, shutdown 
and login yet.  For startup
I found somewhere that LINUX backward compatibility is maintained:  
/etc/rc.d/rc.local that is still in
Fedora 17.  This is still a choke point shell for every bootstrap's 
completion!

Now I still need to find a similar choke point shell somewhere that 
every login is guaranteed to pas
through.   (I have not yet tried to modify the F17 "halt" command that I 
have used in earlier F117 and
LM12  distributions.)

Since Fedora 17 became my system of choice last month,  I have been 
using the "log file Viewer" to
copy and paste by hand the tail end of its non-standard format log file 
data.  Then I hand modfiy
lines to get my missing previous halt and login timing information .  I 
ultimately intend to write all this
up for my personal www.helmers.com site when I figure out or learn form 
others where my missing
epochs are in the system shells.

Have a great day, live long and prosper


...Carl

Carl Helmers
carl at helmers.com
www.helmers.com



On 09/14/2012 09:54 AM, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Hey, all.  I know we have a fair number of contractors here, and I was
> wondering if anyone has a time tracker piece of software they
> particularly enjoy.  This is for my own personal use, so I'm just
> looking for straightforward: something to track time, what I did during
> that time, and (preferably) some sort of calendar interface to check it
> all out.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Ken
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#!/bin/bash
#     Carl Helmers' post boot rc.local initialization file
#         (CC) (C) 2012 Carl T. Helmers, Jr. -- all rights reserved
#
#     A very preliminary list of things to bash the system with...
#
# executable owner-group-other permissions via root shell

# created 2012/08/18 at 21:01:38 EDT
# modified 2012/09/04 at 10:24 EDT
# modified 2012/09/14 at 13:08 EDT (adapted with comments from live version)
#
# the following gives evidence of execution, if uncommented
# echo "CH(Thor) rc.local `date`" > /home/local-logs/SMOKE-rc.local
# echo "CH(Thor) rc.local `date`" > /home/Carl/Documents/SMOKE-rc.local
#
# The following adds a couple of lines at the top of the BASEL-history
#     file located in /home/local-logs:
/home/local-logs/mark-epoch-of "Carl" "B"


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