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Is there a solution to record the screens of multiple workstations running Ubuntu 8.10.

I was thinking of something that records using the vnc protocol (Ubuntu already has a vnc server installed by default).

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You better not be using this for snooping around. Or else! – Artem Russakovskii May 23 '09 at 18:31
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I have to record the screen of every operator in the call center I work at – nicudotro Jun 2 '09 at 21:25
Does it have to record EVERYTHING or would snapshot intervals be acceptable? For example, screenshot every 5min? – KPWINC Jun 30 '09 at 1:46
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This blog post "Flawless Screen Recording for Ubuntu, Headless" explains how to use headless VNC in order to record screen sessions.

It turns out there is a very good recorder for VNC, vnc2swf. The only problem here is that Ubuntu’s built in VNC server (Remote Desktop) doesn’t work headless, and I’d never pursued alternatives since freenx is so badass.

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For headless you need the “vncserver” package. It manages its own X sessions and broadcasts them over VNC, as many sessions as you want.

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I think x11vnc is for you!

x11vnc -storepasswd and x11vnc -rfbauth ~/.vnc/passwd -ncache should help you running the server and pyvnc2swf (debian/lenny has this package!) should be the right tool for recording through an ssh tunnel from one central monitoringserver

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www.cmdln.org/2007/07/20/automatic-session-logging-and-monitoring-with-gnu-screen-for-the-paranoid/

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I believe the poster was talking about recording the GUI desktop, not the screen program. Still an interesting link since I was looking for that info. – Martijn Heemels Jan 5 '10 at 21:37
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Wireshark should decode X11 or VNC fine, you may need to aquire the .Xauthority file (MIT MAGIC COOKIE) to decrypt the data from the X sessions.

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