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SubjectRe: Looking for a file monitor
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <43FF3C1C.5040200@gmail.com>
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 at 11:02:20 -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
>
>> But if we want to keep a track of all the files that are opened, read,
>> written or deleted (much like filemon; ``Filemon's timestamping feature
>> will show you precisely when every open, read, write or delete, happens,
>> and its status column tells you the outcome."), we can write a simple
>> patch that makes a note of these events on the VFS layer, and then we
>> could export this information to userspace, via relayfs. It wouldn't be
>> too hard to code a relatively efficient implementation.
>
> Doesn't auditing do all this?

I have no idea about auditing, but I would guess it internally uses inotify.

Hareesh
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