watching all activity on a file?

[Kevin D. Clark]

Bill McGonigle writes:

> This is useful, but I was hoping to also get the PID that was  
> piddling so I could find out why a certain file was being messed  
> with.  

How about:

   while inotifywait -e modify /file/you/are/interested/in; do
     lsof /file/you/are/interested/in >>/tmp/logfile
     date >>/tmp/logfile
   done


Regards,

--kevin
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