Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:01:08 -0600 | From | Hareesh Nagarajan <> | Subject | Re: Looking for a file monitor |
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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.
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