Is there a "filemon" equivalent?

[Arch Willingham]

I am looking for a Linux equivalent to windows filemon utility. It lets you see what files are being accessed in real time. I googled but don't see anything.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Arch

[Guy Fraser]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:22 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> I am looking for a Linux equivalent to windows filemon utility. It lets you see what files are being accessed in real time. I googled but don't see anything.
>
> Any ideas?

The closest thing I know about is 'lsof' which is a command 
line program that lists all open files.
> Thanks!
>
> Arch

[Arch Willingham]

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.

Thanks for the help!

Arch

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Guy Fraser
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:33 AM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Is there a "filemon" equivalent?

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 11:22 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> I am looking for a Linux equivalent to windows filemon utility. It lets you see what files are being accessed in real time. I googled but don't see anything.
>
> Any ideas?

The closest thing I know about is 'lsof' which is a command 
line program that lists all open files.
> Thanks!
>
> Arch

[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.

[Mikkel]

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.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Arch

The first thing I do is look at the man page for the program, if it
has one. There is usualy a files section that lists the config file
location. For some programs, there is a man page for the config file
format...

Mikkel

[Arch Willingham]

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Mikkel L. Ellertson
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:19 PM
To: For users of Fedora
Subject: Re: Is there a "filemon" equivalent?

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.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> Arch

The first thing I do is look at the man page for the program, if it
has one. There is usualy a files section that lists the config file
location. For some programs, there is a man page for the config file
format...

Mikkel

[Alan Cox]

Also look at strace. Eg

"strace -e open program"