Detecting and preventing launch of arbitary process

FROM : Andrew Bush
DATE : Fri Jun 16 20:49:10 2006

Hi all,

where would I start looking for a way to do this?  I would like to be
able to detect and prevent an arbitary process of any type from being
launched.  I can do this via something like lsof or top, but I would
prefer to stop the process earlier than that.

where would be a good place to start looking?  does anyone have any
suggestions?

thanks for any help.


Yours cheerfully,


   Andrew Bush