Sorry, should have mentioned that I made the file that large in order to trap as much data as possible. App prefs could be set to generate an easily mailed file size. Unfortunately, while I do have some excellent computer skills, your little reference is totally beyond what I know or really wish to learn. And.... what would those usual hours rates be?? Perhaps that conversation needs to be off list? Has anyone else heard of/worked with Spector Soft, Netopia or any other software like this? Brenda On Dec 10, 2005, at 2:00 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On Dec 10, 2005, at 6:27 pm, Brenda Mitchell wrote: >> >> Spector Soft provides "spyware" that will work on OS X, however, >> the automatic e-mail reporting features do not work... >> >> The software is fully invisible and the data file is kept at "usr/ >> local/.spsnaps". Unfortunately, I am not proficient at Unix to be >> able to access, use, e-mail, etc. this data file. > > It wouldn't be hard to learn how to do this in Unix. > > There are plenty of tutorials on the net on setting up Postfix on > OS X, then you would only need to set a cron job (`man 5 crontab`) > to `uuencode /usr/local/.spsnaps | sendmail address at isp.net`. I'd > personally wrap the attachment in MIME headers, but you don't need to. > > 2gig is a lot to be emailing on a regular basis, of course, so I > don't know if this is really a solution, or whether you could > safely delete the datafile. But your issue with Spector Soft is > easily worked-around, so shouldn't be an objection (I'll even shell > in & do the configuration for you, if you like, at my usual hourly > rates). > > Stroller. > >