watching all activity on a file?

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Thu Dec 20 22:05:06 EST 2007


On Dec 20, 2007, at 18:37, Kevin D. Clark wrote:

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

If it were someone editing a file, that would be a great solution.   
In this particular case I'm trying to catch an unlink - my hunch is  
lsof woudn't show anything.

-Bill

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