watching all activity on a file?

[Stephen Ryan]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 14:25 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> Anybody know how I can say, "Show me all filesystem activity  
> involving filesystem item /foo/bar/baz ?"
> 
> This is on ext3.

inotify / inotify-tools.

If you want to know from the shell or a scripting app, inotify-tools is
probably easier.  If you want to know inside some other application,
inotify is the low-level set of kernel functions that will give you more
information than you wanted to know.
-- 
Stephen Ryan
Dartware, LLC