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title: Keep a tally of executables run on the system
name: also_ran.stp
version: 1.0
author: William Cohen
keywords: prometheus
subsystem: process
status: experimental
exit: user-controlled
output: proc
scope: system-wide
description: The also_ran.stp script tallies each time a executable is started or a shared library is loaded for execution.  This information can be useful to determine what software is actually being used on the system.  The script makes the information available via procfs in Prometheus readable format.
test_check: stap -p4 also_ran.stp
test_installcheck: stap also_ran.stp -T 1