lsof? fuser? wrap the whole thing in exec or cron like you mentioned?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Kurt Granroth <
kurt+plug-discuss@granroth.com> wrote:
> I need to be able to monitor a file to see when it changes and, more
> importantly, what process is making that change. Specifically, I run the
> SpiderOak utility every night but *something* (maybe itself) is corrupting
> or rewriting a critical file just before it runs. I need to know what it is
> that is doing that change.
>
> Tripwire will monitor the file and tell me that it changed... but I already
> know that. I didn't see any obvious way to get it to tell me who changed
> it.
>
> radmind looks like it might be able to do that... but that's a sledgehammer
> approach that I'd rather avoid.
>
> Maybe incron (cron version of inotify) could trigger a script that runs
> 'stat' on the file. Still wouldn't give me the "who", though.
>
> What am I missing?
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