Re: Is there a "filemon" equivalent?

[Sjoerd Mullender]

Arch Willingham wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> The reason I asked is that sometimes I'd like to know what files different programs use for their configuration data. With windows (I know.....bad word :> ), I could crank up filemon, than start up the program and watch it as it hit files.

Perhaps you can then use
strace -e trace=file program+arguments

See man strace.