"Watch"ing a directory

[Pete Briggs]

Once I tried something like touching a file, this worked as advertised,
I'm using kernel:

2.6.21-1.3194.fc7

on Fedora 7

Thanks again - Pete Briggs

On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 10:36 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 August 2007 10:17:37 Pete Briggs wrote:
> > Is there any way to put a watch on a directory, 
> 
> Sort of...RHEL5.1 will have subtree auditing working in it. Al Viro also sent 
> the patch upstream and should land in 2.6.23 or 24.
> 
> > so that an audit record will be generated if anyone cd's to that directory. 
> 
> Not for cd'ing into a directory. They have to attempt to read, write, change 
> an attribute, or execute a file.
> 
> > I've tried things like:
> >
> > -w /etc/audit/ -k ACCESS_AUDIT
> 
> That is how you would watch a directory with current audit package and kernel 
> with the subtree auditing patch.
> 
> > but the rule never seems to get invoked. I'm running FC7 with
> > audit-1.5.3
> 
> They have to actually do something for it to trip...assuming you have a kernel 
> that supports it.
> 
> -Steve
>