Track file usage
Scot L. Harris
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Wed Jun 8 19:47:54 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 15:39, 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.
Try lsof
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