LittleBrother is a simple parental control application monitoring specific processes on Linux hosts to monitor and limit the play time of children.

Last update: Dec 21, 2022

Overview

Parental Control Application `LittleBrother`

Overview

LittleBrother is a simple parental control application monitoring specific processes (read "games") on Linux hosts to monitor and limit the play time of (young) children. It is designed as a client server application running on several hosts and combining playing time spent across these hosts, but it also works on a standalone host.

When the application determines that a user has exceeded her play time, it will terminate the configured process. Usually, the user will get several spoken notifications (using the LittleBrotherTaskbar) before she is actually kicked out so that she can log out gracefully in time.

What's New?

The latest major feature changes are:

Version	Feature/Fix	Issue Link
0.4.9	New: Automatic check for new versions of `LittleBrother`	Issue 150
	Improvement: Separate LDAP search DN for groups and users	Issue 144
	Improvement: Cache timeout for LDAP data	Issue 138
0.4.8	New: Full support for requesting optional time by users	Issue 130
0.4.4	New: Use user specific patterns to prohibit applications	Issue 129

Contact

Visit the project at Facebook or write comments to little-brother(at)web.de.

Screenshots

The following screenshots show the web frontend of LittleBrother. Click on the thumbnails to enlarge.

Change History

See here

GitHub Status

SourceForge Download Status

Continuous Integration Status Overview

Status	Master	Release
CircleCI
Test Coverage
Snyk Vulnerability
Codacy Code Quality
Code Climate		not available

Note: The vulnerability status is derived from the Python PIP packages found in requirements.txt.

Features

LittleBrother has the following features:

Any number of users can be monitored.
Each user can have a specific set of rules defining the permitted playtime.
Rules can be adapted to "contexts", such as the day of the week and/or a vacation schedule (currently only the German schedules are supported).
Play time can be restricted to a time window (from, to).
A maximum play time per day can be defined.
Users can be forced to take a break after a certain maximum session time.
Users can be forced to wait for a minimum break time after their activity.
Any number of Linux client hosts can be monitored.
There is a master host with a history of the activities of all users. This master host checks the rule sets and prompts the client hosts to terminate processes if required.
The master host offers a simple web interface for viewing the user activity over a configured history length (e.g. 7 days) and an administration page to dynamically define rule exceptions for a configured number of days into the future.
The web application can be run behind a proxy so that it will be accessible from away allowing remote administration after receiving calls from young users begging for more play time.
There is a helper application (LittleBrotherTaskbar) to display the remaining playtime of a monitored user and speak the notifications.
The application has international language support. Currently English, Italian and German translations are provided. Users are invited to provide translations for other languages.
Downtime of a server during playtime (e.g. due to hibernation) is automatically subtracted from the play time.
In addition to the time spent on Linux hosts the application can also monitor activity time on other devices such as smartphones or tables. It takes advantage of the fact that most modern operating systems put devices in some kind of power saving mode while they are not being used. This way, the network response (by pinging) can be used to determine the activity on those devices. In contrast to the Linux hosts, the application will not be able to terminate the activity. The play time, however, will be added to the overall playtime and hence will have an impact on the time allowed and also on the break time rules on the Linux hosts.
As of version 0.3.12 LittleBrother is able to use ProxyPing to ping devices behind firewalls provided the tool can be deployed on a Debian server behind the firewall.
As of version 0.3.13 LittleBrother slaves will terminate local user sessions if they cannot reach the master process for a certain time (defaults to 50 seconds). This ensures users cannot suppress being logged out by pulling the plug.
As of version 0.4.0 LittleBrother provides an administration feature to easily extend the current computer time or grant computer when the usage would normally be prohibited. This is called a time extension. During an active extension all other restrictions (maximum time per session, time of day, and maximum time per day) are deactivated. Time extension can even extend into the next day making long night session possible. However, any computer time actually spent during a time extension will contribute to the overall time played in the course of a day.
There is a Docker image available (currently for the slave only) which makes it really easy to run a slave on a Linux host with a Docker daemon available.
The application uses voice generation to inform the user over impending logouts. Also, these spoken messages are internationalized. Optionally, users can be notified using four different popup tools. Note that this functionality of the LittleBrother application has been replaced by the LittleBrotherTaskbar.

Architecture

The page gives a detailed description of the architecture of the application.

Tested Distributions

So far, LittleBrother has only been released as a Debian package. For other non-Debian based distributions there is some basic support using a generic installation script. See this page for details.

Distribution	Version	Architecture	Comments	Most Recent Test
Ubuntu	18.10	amd64	See pip3 issue	03.JUN.2019
Debian	buster	amd64	This distribution (buster-slim) is used as base image for Docker	01.JAN.2020
Debian	10.3 (buster)	amd64	Feedback from a user as regular install with Mate desktop	05.MAR.2020
Mint	19	amd64		03.JAN.2020
Debian	stretch	armv6l		23.MAY.2020

Quick Install (Debian Package)

This guide will take you through the steps required to install, configure, and run the LittleBrother application on your system. This guide works both for master and slave setups. For setting up a slave there is a second option using Docker. See the Docker page for more details.

YouTube Videos

Thumbnail and Link to Video	Duration	Content	Related Versions
	16 min	Install LittleBrother Debian package, edit configuration file, add user, test functionality	LittleBrother 0.3.1 on Ubuntu 19.3
	14 min	Install LittleBrotherTaskbar pip3 package, register desktop service, test functionality	LittleBrotherTaskbar 0.1.9 on Ubuntu 19.3

Download the Software

The application is available as a Debian package from the release directory at SourceForge. The latest build is available from the master directory. Install it as you would install any other Debian package with

dpkg -i PACKAGE.deb
apt-get install -f

Note that the second command is required to install missing dependencies since dpkg does not run a dependency check. Instead, it will return with an error which will then be "fixed" by apt-get.

After installation use

systemctl start little-brother

to start the application right away. The application will successfully start up provided that the default port 5555 is available on the host. You can check the success by trying to log into the web frontend.

Configuring the Application (Mostly Optional)

The default setup will fit most first-time users (except for the password). The following table contains various additional aspects that may require additional configuration.

Aspect	Default Setting	Alternatives	Reference
Admin Password	User `admin` with password `test123`	Use LDAP for authentication and authorization	See "Setting Admin Password" below
Database backend	File oriented database sqlite	Full fledged database such as MySQL dor MariaDB	See Advanced Configuration
Web frontend port	`5555`	Any other available port	See Advanced Configuration
Web frontend base URL	`/`	Any other path	See Advanced Configuration
User registry	`/etc/passwd`	Predefined users and UIDs or LDAP registry	See Advanced Configuration
Master slave setup	Use only a master host	Use any number of slave hosts	See Advanced Configuration
Mapping UIDs	UIDs are synchronized across all hosts	Each host (group) can have different UIDs	See Advanced Configuration
Scanning Interval	Every 5 seconds	Any other interval	See Advanced Configuration
Reverse proxy setup	No reverse proxy	Run little-brother behind a reverse proxy (e.g. `nginx`)	See Advanced Configuration
Docker Support	Slave is installed as Debian package	Slave is run as Docker container	See Docker.
Prometheus Support	Not activated	Activate Prometheus server port and provide run time statistics	See Operational Monitoring.
Network Tempering Detection	Automatic logout of monitored users after a network downtime of 50 seconds	Set a different time out	See Advanced Configuration

Setting the Admin Password

For the time being setting the admin password is the only standard configuration that still requires using an editor. See this issue. You have to be root to follow these steps (e.g. use sudo):

Use your favorite editor to edit the file /etc/little-brother/little-brother.conf.
Find the setting admin_password in the section [UnixUserHandler].
Change the password.
Save the file.
Restart the application by issuing:
```
systemctl restart little-brother 
```

From now on the new password will have to be used to access the administration pages.

Using the Web-Frontend

You are all set now. It's time to set up users to be monitored and optionally devices. See the Web Frontend Manual.

Troubleshooting

So, you went through all the above but LittleBrother does not seem to work? Maybe this troubleshooting page can help you.

Caveats

The application LittleBrother is far from perfect. Some major caveats are listed here and/or in the issue list on GitHub (see here).

Every once in a while processes fail to terminate even though they have been killed by LittleBrother. In these cases the user will still be regarded as logged in although he/she is not. Usually this can only be solved by trying to kill the processes again using the master user. Database eloquent users may try to delete/correct the incorrect process time entries.
The web server only responds to HTTP requests. This is probably always OK for communication between the slaves and the master in local area network. If the master host is to be accessible from the internet, it should be put behind a reverse proxy handling the HTTPS termination (see below).

Internationalization

The application uses the PIP package Flask-Babel to provide internationalization for the web frontend. Currently, the following languages are supported or currently in preparation (in the order they were made available):

Language	Locale	Status	Translation provided by
English	en	Up-to-date	Marcus Rickert
German	de	Up-to-date	Marcus Rickert
Italian	it	Revision 107	Albano Battistella
Dutch	nl	Revision 63	Simone & Lex
Finnish	fi	Revision 63	Isakkii Kosonen
French	fr	Revision 86	Albano Battistella
Turkish	tr	Revision 63	Selay Dogan
Russian	ru	Revision 63	J. Moldawski
Japanese	ja	Revision 63	Arik M.
Bangla	bn	Revision 63	Rownak Jyoti Zaman
Thai	th	Revision 63	Busaba Kramer
Danish	da	Revision 63	Erik Husmark
Spanish	es	Revision 63	Ruth Wucherpfennig-Krömer
Croatian	hr	Revision 63	Incognito
Lithuanian	lt	In preparation	N.N.

A revision number in the status column denotes that all texts up to that revision have been localized.

Your help with translations is greatly appreciated. Please, contact the author if you are interested in providing a translation. You do not necessarily have to clone this repository or be familiar with Python to do so.

Credits

Thanks to all the people maintaining the wonderful script language Python and the libraries on PyPi.
The country flags were taken from www.countryflags.com.
See the section about on internationalization for credits regarding the translations.
The site www.mehr-schulferien.de maintains the vacation metadata for Germany.
The icons are provided by fontawesome.com.
People contributing by providing pull requests:
- Bas Hulsken (see issue 120)
- Albano Battistella for providing Italian and French translations

Comments

Cannot install pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit

Collecting pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit==6.1 Downloading pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit-6.1.tar.gz (18 kB) ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /usr/bin/python3 -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/pip-egg-info cwd: /tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/ Complete output (15 lines): Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/setup.py", line 33, in for fn in os.listdir("Modules") File "/tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/pyobjc_setup.py", line 408, in Extension os_level = get_os_level() File "/tmp/pip-install-4zrugjzk/pyobjc-framework-CoreAudioKit/pyobjc_setup.py", line 218, in get_os_level pl = plistlib.readPlist("/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist") File "/usr/lib/python3.6/plistlib.py", line 162, in readPlist with _maybe_open(pathOrFile, 'rb') as fp: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/contextlib.py", line 81, in enter return next(self.gen) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/plistlib.py", line 120, in _maybe_open with open(pathOrFile, mode) as fp: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist' ---------------------------------------- ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output. dpkg: error processing package little-brother (--configure): installed little-brother package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Setting up dh-python (3.20180325ubuntu2) ... Setting up libpython3-dev:amd64 (3.6.7-1~18.04) ... Setting up python3-cryptography (2.1.4-1ubuntu1.3) ... Setting up python3-keyrings.alt (3.0-1) ... Setting up python3-dev (3.6.7-1~18.04) ... Setting up python3-secretstorage (2.3.1-2) ... Setting up python3-keyring (10.6.0-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: little-brother E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
bug high priority

opened by dgofman 13

Taskbar / client does not get user informations

After upgrading from an 0.3x to 0.4.10 the client does not get user informations, according to the log:

2021-11-20 19:22:08,786 - MasterConnector - DEBUG - Executing POST API call 'http://192.168.178.10:5555/api/events'
2021-11-20 19:22:08,810 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.check 0.006 [s] behind schedule... *** END ***
2021-11-20 19:22:08,810 - App - DEBUG - Sleeping for 4.839537 seconds (or until next signal)
2021-11-20 19:22:13,653 - App - DEBUG - Woken by signal
2021-11-20 19:22:13,654 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(ProcessHandler) 0.004 [s] behind schedule... *** START ***
2021-11-20 19:22:13,654 - ClientProcessHandler - DEBUG - Scanning processes for users johann...
2021-11-20 19:22:13,686 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(ProcessHandler) 0.004 [s] behind schedule... *** END ***
2021-11-20 19:22:13,686 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(DeviceHandler) 0.003 [s] behind schedule... *** START ***
2021-11-20 19:22:13,689 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(DeviceHandler) 0.003 [s] behind schedule... *** END ***
2021-11-20 19:22:13,689 - App - DEBUG - Sleeping for 0.094472 seconds (or until next signal)
2021-11-20 19:22:13,784 - App - DEBUG - Woken by signal
2021-11-20 19:22:13,785 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.check 0.001 [s] behind schedule... *** START ***
2021-11-20 19:22:13,785 - UserManager - WARNING - Cannot find user information for user 'johann', will retry later...
2021-11-20 19:22:13,787 - MasterConnector - DEBUG - Executing POST API call 'http://192.168.178.10:5555/api/events'
2021-11-20 19:22:13,809 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.check 0.001 [s] behind schedule... *** END ***
2021-11-20 19:22:13,810 - App - DEBUG - Sleeping for 4.974878 seconds (or until next signal)

The taskbar says "Benutzer 'johann' nicht eingeloggt". This can be worked around by simply restarting the client (service little-brother restart). But this is surely not an option.

Can I fix this by configuration or is it a real bug?

bug high priority

opened by MrFly 8

enhance process matching by allowing substring matching in full command line

pull-request #119

When using Little-Brother to monitor time spend on playing java games (such as Minecraft), the process matching is not so useful (since the process name is java, which is potentially shared with other java programs that are not games).

With this change, you can match a substring in the full command line (e.g. "minecraft") to distinguish a game from another java program. It changes existing behavior though in the sense that pattern matches that were negative before could now be positive (due to substring match, or match in full commandline). Regressions will be limited I guess though, as it won't cause current positive matches to change to negative.
enhancement

opened by bhulsken 6
Cannot start little-brother.

Installed little-brother_0.3.4_76.deb. little-brother_0.3.5_77 would not install. python2-dev depend could not be met. I try to start little-brother with 'systemctl start little-brother' but get

"failed to add /run/systemd/ask-password to directory watch: no such file or directory Failed to start little-brother.service :launch helper exited with unknown return code 1 See system logs and 'systemctl status little-brother.service' for details."

I don't know to proceed or how to view the error.

P.S. I am also having trouble installing little-brother taskbar, but I don't know if i should mention that here or make another Issue. Thanks for any help :)
bug

opened by SolidSouless 6
Update fails on Ubuntu 20.04 - virtualenv cleanup missing

The update of the client / server fails on Ubuntu. Since 0.4.x I always have to remove /var/lib/little-brother/vitualenv/. I did this meanwhile six times from 0.4.9 to 0.4.11 (+ some times I did not think of it and first tried without deleting).

It would be great, if the installer package could do this job as some pre-cleanup. It's sure not a big problem, already documented as workaround/problem solution and just one thing to do for the user. But it would reduce the admin's time for updates and fail rates.
bug question

opened by MrFly 5
Message per popup

Current behavior: Feedback to the user is only given by spoken messages which might not be audible depending on the audio settings. Desired behavior: Optionally, it should be possible to have a popup inform the user about impending logouts.

See https://superuser.com/questions/309961/linux-how-to-send-message-to-local-user-logged-into-x11
enhancement

opened by marcus67 5
Service launch issue (arm64) : 'alembic' has no attribute 'migration'
Looks like I have issue to instal latest release: 1437324B little-brother_0.4.8_107.deb Linux version 4.19.0-17-arm64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.194-3 (2021-07-18) MemTotal: 226084 kB

Specifics:

Install on clean Debian 10 after update,

ARM64 hardware

@little-brother:~$ sudo cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"

@little-brother:~$ sudo tail -n 39 /var/log/little-brother/LittleBrother.log 2021-09-12 17:12:58,829 - root - INFO - Terminated with exit code 1 2021-09-12 17:23:33,978 - root - INFO - Started logging in CWD=/ using module python_base_app.log_handling 2021-09-12 17:23:33,985 - Configuration - INFO - Reading configuration file from '/etc/little-brother/little-brother.config' 2021-09-12 17:23:33,989 - Persistence - INFO - Database URL for normal access: 'sqlite://var/spool/little-brother/little-brother.sqlite.db' 2021-09-12 17:23:34,073 - Persistence - INFO - Checking whether to create database 'little_brother'... 2021-09-12 17:23:34,073 - App - INFO - Upgrading database to revision 'head' using alembic with working directory /var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/little_brother... 2021-09-12 17:23:34,122 - alembic.runtime.migration - INFO - Context impl SQLiteImpl. 2021-09-12 17:23:34,123 - alembic.runtime.migration - INFO - Will assume non-transactional DDL. 2021-09-12 17:23:34,135 - root - INFO - Starting daemon process... 2021-09-12 17:23:34,135 - App - INFO - Daemon starten... 2021-09-12 17:23:34,159 - App - INFO - Daemon gestarted 2021-09-12 17:23:34,165 - App - INFO - Starting app 'LittleBrother' 2021-09-12 17:23:34,167 - Persistence - INFO - Database URL for normal access: 'sqlite://var/spool/little-brother/little-brother.sqlite.db' 2021-09-12 17:23:34,192 - App - ERROR - Error 'module 'alembic' has no attribute 'migration'' in basic_init() 2021-09-12 17:23:34,192 - App - ERROR - Exception 'module 'alembic' has no attribute 'migration'' in run() 2021-09-12 17:23:34,192 - App - INFO - Shutting down services -- START 2021-09-12 17:23:34,192 - App - INFO - Shutting down services -- END 2021-09-12 17:23:34,201 - root - CRITICAL - module 'alembic' has no attribute 'migration' 2021-09-12 17:23:34,214 - root - ERROR - Stack trace = File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 591, in main app.start() File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/python_base_app/daemon.py", line 178, in start self.run(*args, **kwargs) File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 483, in run raise previous_exception File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 463, in run self.basic_init() File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 449, in basic_init raise e File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 444, in basic_init self.prepare_services(p_full_startup=p_full_startup) File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/little_brother/app.py", line 243, in prepare_services self.check_migrations() File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/little_brother/app.py", line 174, in check_migrations current_version = db_mig.get_current_version() File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/little_brother/db_migrations.py", line 61, in get_current_version context = alembic.migration.MigrationContext.configure(self._persistence.get_connection())

2021-09-12 17:23:34,214 - root - INFO - Terminated with exit code 1 [email protected]:~$
bug high priority
opened by vaidls 4

debug_mode=True causes crash of client and/or server

The upgrade on client side failed with the following error:

2021-01-18 11:52:33,079 - root - INFO - Started logging in CWD=/ using module python_base_app.log_handling
2021-01-18 11:52:33,081 - Configuration - INFO - Reading configuration file from '/etc/little-brother/little-brother.config'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,082 - root - INFO - Set logging level to DEBUG
2021-01-18 11:52:33,082 - Persistence - INFO - Database URL for normal access: 'sqlite://var/spool/little-brother/little-brother.sqlite.db'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,092 - Persistence - INFO - Checking whether to create database little_brother...
2021-01-18 11:52:33,093 - App - INFO - Upgrading database to revision 'head' using alembic with working directory /var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother...
2021-01-18 11:52:33,114 - alembic.runtime.migration - INFO - Context impl SQLiteImpl.
2021-01-18 11:52:33,114 - alembic.runtime.migration - INFO - Will assume non-transactional DDL.
2021-01-18 11:52:33,118 - root - INFO - Starting daemon process...
2021-01-18 11:52:33,118 - App - INFO - Daemon starten...
2021-01-18 11:52:33,124 - App - INFO - Daemon gestarted
2021-01-18 11:52:33,125 - App - INFO - Starting app 'LittleBrother'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,126 - Persistence - INFO - Database URL for normal access: 'sqlite://var/spool/little-brother/little-brother.sqlite.db'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,139 - alembic.runtime.migration - INFO - Context impl SQLiteImpl.
2021-01-18 11:52:33,139 - alembic.runtime.migration - INFO - Will assume non-transactional DDL.
2021-01-18 11:52:33,143 - App - INFO - Database is on alembic version version_0_3
2021-01-18 11:52:33,325 - Persistence - INFO - Open database for normal access
2021-01-18 11:52:33,348 - App - INFO - Module python_base_app is using Babel translations in /var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/translations
2021-01-18 11:52:33,348 - UnixUserHandler - INFO - Using admin user 'None'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,361 - AppControl - INFO - Watching usernames: xxx
2021-01-18 11:52:33,361 - App - WARNING - Slave instance will not start web server due to missing port number
2021-01-18 11:52:33,362 - AppControl - INFO - Starting application in SLAVE mode communication with master at URL http://192.168.178.10:5555/api
2021-01-18 11:52:33,362 - AppControl - DEBUG - Queue for send: AdminEvent (type=START_CLIENT, host=yyy, user=None, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 11:52:33,362 - AppControl - INFO - Using fully qualified domain name 'yyy' for process infos
2021-01-18 11:52:33,363 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(ProcessHandler) 0.001 [s] behind schedule... *** START ***
2021-01-18 11:52:33,371 - ClientProcessHandler - DEBUG - Scanning processes...
2021-01-18 11:52:33,411 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(ProcessHandler) 0.001 [s] behind schedule... *** END ***
2021-01-18 11:52:33,412 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(DeviceHandler) 0.051 [s] behind schedule... *** START ***
2021-01-18 11:52:33,430 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.scan_processes(DeviceHandler) 0.051 [s] behind schedule... *** END ***
2021-01-18 11:52:33,431 - App - DEBUG - Executing task app_control.check 0.069 [s] behind schedule... *** START ***
2021-01-18 11:52:33,431 - AppControl - WARNING - Cannot find user information for user 'xxx', will retry later...
2021-01-18 11:52:33,432 - MasterConnector - DEBUG - Executing POST API call 'http://192.168.178.10:5555/api/events'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,496 - AppControl - DEBUG - Queue locally: AdminEvent (type=PROCESS_START, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 11:52:33,497 - AppControl - DEBUG - Queue locally: AdminEvent (type=SPEAK, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 11:52:33,497 - AppControl - DEBUG - Processing AdminEvent (type=PROCESS_START, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 11:52:33,498 - App - WARNING - Propagating exception due to debug_mode=True
2021-01-18 11:52:33,498 - App - ERROR - Exception ''NoneType' object has no attribute 'handle_event_process_start'' in run()
2021-01-18 11:52:33,498 - App - INFO - Shutting down services -- START
2021-01-18 11:52:33,498 - AppControl - INFO - Artificially terminating 0 active processes on ClientProcessHandler
2021-01-18 11:52:33,498 - AppControl - INFO - Artificially terminating 0 active processes on ClientDeviceHandler
2021-01-18 11:52:33,498 - AppControl - DEBUG - Processing AdminEvent (type=SPEAK, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 11:52:33,513 - MasterConnector - DEBUG - Executing POST API call 'http://192.168.178.10:5555/api/events'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,523 - App - INFO - Shutting down services -- END
2021-01-18 11:52:33,523 - root - CRITICAL - 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'handle_event_process_start'
2021-01-18 11:52:33,524 - root - ERROR - Stack trace =   File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 589, in main
    app.start()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/daemon.py", line 178, in start
    self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 481, in run
    raise previous_exception
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 464, in run
    self.event_queue()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 404, in event_queue
    raise e
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 380, in event_queue
    task.handler_method()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 431, in check
    self.process_queue()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 724, in process_queue
    new_events = self.process_event(p_event=event)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 681, in process_event
    self.handle_event_process_start(p_event=p_event)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 536, in handle_event_process_start
    pinfo, updated = self.get_process_handler(p_id=p_event.processhandler).handle_event_process_start(p_event)

2021-01-18 11:52:33,524 - root - INFO - Terminated with exit code 1

I reverted the client to 0.3.8_80, but no change. Seems that this error is caused by the server.

Edit, interesting one: Replaced the server AND client with 0.3.8_80 (installed over it), and removed the sql lite database. The problem persists.

Last edit (maybe): The problem is caused by the flag "debug_mode=True" -> This causes an access to a (maybe) non existing object which crashes the client. Same problem on server side, of debug_mode=True:

2021-01-18 12:45:23,108 - App - WARNING - Propagating exception due to debug_mode=True
2021-01-18 12:45:23,108 - App - ERROR - Exception 'No row was found for one()' in run()
2021-01-18 12:45:23,108 - App - INFO - Shutting down services -- START
2021-01-18 12:45:23,108 - StatusServer - INFO - Stopping web server Web Server...
2021-01-18 12:45:23,109 - StatusServer - INFO - Sending shutdown API request 'http://0.0.0.0:5555/shutdown/a607f8b8598211eb8345a7950af959f9'
2021-01-18 12:45:23,124 - StatusServer - INFO - Waiting for the server thread to terminate
2021-01-18 12:45:23,618 - StatusServer - INFO - HTTP server 'Web Server' shut down successfully
2021-01-18 12:45:23,619 - AppControl - INFO - Artificially terminating 0 active processes on ClientProcessHandler
2021-01-18 12:45:23,620 - AppControl - INFO - Artificially terminating 3 active processes on ClientDeviceHandler
2021-01-18 12:45:23,620 - AppControl - DEBUG - Queue locally: AdminEvent (type=PROCESS_END, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 12:45:23,621 - AppControl - DEBUG - Queue locally: AdminEvent (type=PROCESS_END, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 12:45:23,621 - AppControl - DEBUG - Queue locally: AdminEvent (type=PROCESS_END, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 12:45:23,622 - AppControl - DEBUG - Processing AdminEvent (type=PROCESS_END, host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=-)
2021-01-18 12:45:23,622 - ClientDeviceHandler - DEBUG - TERMINATED ProcessInfo (host=yyy, user=xxx, process=None, PID=[None], epoch=1610969592)
2021-01-18 12:45:23,633 - App - ERROR - Exception 'No row was found for one()' while stopping services
2021-01-18 12:45:23,633 - root - CRITICAL - No row was found for one()
2021-01-18 12:45:23,639 - root - ERROR - Stack trace =   File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 589, in main
    app.start()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/daemon.py", line 178, in start
    self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 481, in run
    raise previous_exception
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 464, in run
    self.event_queue()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 404, in event_queue
    raise e
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 380, in event_queue
    task.handler_method()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 422, in check
    self.process_queue()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 724, in process_queue
    new_events = self.process_event(p_event=event)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 687, in process_event
    self.handle_event_process_end(p_event=p_event)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/app_control.py", line 573, in handle_event_process_end
    self._persistence.update_process_info(p_process_info=pinfo)
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/little_brother/persistence.py", line 801, in update_process_info
    pinfo = session.query(ProcessInfo).filter(ProcessInfo.key == p_process_info.get_key()).one()
  File "/var/lib/little-brother/virtualenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sqlalchemy/orm/query.py", line 3500, in one
    raise orm_exc.NoResultFound("No row was found for one()")

bug

opened by MrFly 4

Stack trace = File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 382,

Ping target is ofline and other two targets is not processed.

ii little-brother 0.4.15-116

2022-01-29 21:27:44,951 - App - ERROR - Exception ['/bin/ping', '-w', '1', '-c', '1', 'fejapc.local'] returns exit code 2 in event queue 2022-01-29 21:27:44,952 - App - ERROR - Stack trace = File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 382, in event_queue task.handler_method() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/app.py", line 348, in p_handler_method=lambda: self._app_control._process_handler_manager.scan_processes( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/process_handler_manager.py", line 311, in scan_processes events = p_process_handler.scan_processes( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/client_device_handler.py", line 280, in scan_processes self.ping_device(p_reference_time=p_reference_time, p_device=device) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/client_device_handler.py", line 237, in ping_device delay = self._pinger.ping(p_host=p_device.hostname) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/pinger.py", line 102, in ping return self.local_ping(p_host=p_host) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/pinger.py", line 166, in local_ping raise ConfigurationException(fmt.format(cmd=command, exitcode=proc.returncode))

2022-01-29 21:28:14,957 - App - ERROR - Exception ['/bin/ping', '-w', '1', '-c', '1', 'fejapc.local'] returns exit code 2 in event queue 2022-01-29 21:28:14,958 - App - ERROR - Stack trace = File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/base_app.py", line 382, in event_queue task.handler_method() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/app.py", line 348, in p_handler_method=lambda: self._app_control._process_handler_manager.scan_processes( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/process_handler_manager.py", line 311, in scan_processes events = p_process_handler.scan_processes( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/client_device_handler.py", line 280, in scan_processes self.ping_device(p_reference_time=p_reference_time, p_device=device) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/little_brother/client_device_handler.py", line 237, in ping_device delay = self._pinger.ping(p_host=p_device.hostname) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/pinger.py", line 102, in ping return self.local_ping(p_host=p_host) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/python_base_app/pinger.py", line 166, in local_ping raise ConfigurationException(fmt.format(cmd=command, exitcode=proc.returncode))
bug high priority

opened by vaidls 3
LDAP -> separate people / group organizational units

it is quite common to have different ou for groups (containing posixGroup) and people (containing posixUser), currently it seems the config does not allow for that:

# Distinguished name of the sub tree containing Posix users and groups (mandatory) ldap_search_base_dn = ou=people,dc=example,dc=com

would be good to be able to specify separate sub trees for people and groups, without that option I can't get ldap to work for my config (wheel group for admins is in Groups ou, users to monitor are in people ou).
enhancement

opened by bhulsken 3
Delay execution of kill command so that notification can be played

Current behavior: There is a race condition between the issuing of the kill command and the playback of the notification about the impending logout. This often results in the notification not being played at all. Desired behavior: The is a configurable delay between the issuing of the notification and the kill command.

Note: Special care has to be taken that the kill command is not issued more than necessary.
bug enhancement

opened by marcus67 3
Terminate in case of out of disk error

When LittleBrother encounters an out of disk error, it's probably wise to terminate the application since it has a continuous (albeit small) disk space consumption.

opened by marcus67 0
python_base_app_ldap_extension is not a git submodule

Not sure if this is deliberate, but python_base_app is a git submodule, while python_base_app_ldap_extension is not. For consistencies sake it might be good to either have both as submodules (or the opposite, remove both)?

I can easily work around this by manually pulling python_base_app_ldap_extension before I build my rpm, so it's not an important or blocking issue for me in any way.

Thanks!

opened by bhulsken 0
Internal API does not heed setting for relative URL

Current behavior: The internal API URL for receiving communication from the clients does not heed the setting base_url which is used for the Web GUI. Desired behavior: It should be possible to set the relative URL for the internal API. This should be an optional configuration since the internal API may only be used across the local network which does not require a relative URL (other than /).
enhancement

opened by marcus67 0
Remove dependency on python_ldap from Docker client images

The client does not use the LDAP interface since only the master handles authorization. Therefore, the PIP dependency on python_ldap could be removed from the file requirements.txt. This would also simplify the Dockerfiles of the images since, currently, there is a big problem with installing the PIP images of python_ldap due a breaking change in libldap.
enhancement

opened by marcus67 0
Playtime on a weekly basis

Hi,

thanks for the project. I would like to grant my kids a certain playtime per week, and they would than use/distribute it on their own.

Im wondering if it would be possible to use the optional Time but on a weekly basis? As far as i can tell from the code the dailystatistic handles this right now but each day has his own statistic.

Where would i start when i would like to implement something like an accounting for personal playtime? In my mind they would have a daily amount like it is at the moment and additionally an weekly/monthly amount that they can spend.

Cheers Thomas
enhancement

opened by klimacht 1

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LittleBrother is a simple parental control application monitoring specific processes on Linux hosts to monitor and limit the play time of children.

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