It requires the Perl 5 library and a web browser. It won't watch individual processes, but it will ping the host at designated intervals. That action may be no more than logging the event in syslog or e-mailing one or more addresses. If you know Perl, you can make it do even more. It requires the Perl library.
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This editor is a nice, very simple text processor. I didn't test the HTML feature. I was mainly interested in the fact that it handles RTF, the one format any true word processor will understand. Required libraries are glibc, libtiff, libjpeg, libpng and libgif. When he's not working, he can be found hacking his own system or enjoying the view of Seattle from an airplane.