Re: Looking for a file monitor

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 19:47:05 EST


In-Reply-To: <43FF3C1C.5040200@xxxxxxxxx>

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 Fedora Core 4 installed and it comes with the 'audit' RPM.

--
Chuck
"Equations are the Devil's sentences." --Stephen Colbert

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