Track file usage

[dan]

Andy Pieters wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Those of you who have had the punishment of maintaining workstations with m$ 
> on it might have heard, or even used filemon (from sysinternals).  It hooks 
> itself on the kernel and keeps an eye on what application accesses what file.
> 
> Is anyone aware of such an utlity for Linux?  No fancy gui needed, plain old 
> cli will suffice.
> 
> Basically what I want to do is launch the app, then run another program and 
> see what files are being opened by that program.
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> 
> Andy
> 
> 

ANdy -

I use 'lsof' quite often, and it does the same thing, almost, as 
filemon.  It simply lists open files.  I'm not sure if it is capable of 
doing a continuous list, however - anyone else know?

Sorry if this email wasn't completely helpful, but it will at least give 
you a starting point.

Thanks
-dant