Re: Looking for a file monitor

[Hareesh Nagarajan]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 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 no idea about auditing, but I would guess it internally uses inotify.

Hareesh
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