Files getting deleted automatically..No Idea??

your_shadow03 · 11-06-2009, 01:27 AM

I have a RHEL Machine on which some application is running.What Really point of astonishment is : In one of my application, I am finding few files from a directory getting deleted whenever transfer through sftp is carried out.Surprisingly, I can login to linux server through WinSCP running on Windows.And When I check secure logs at Linux Machine it throws some sftp subsystem error.What I can guess some application is killing the sftp service. But even though I can see i can access files through WinSCP.

As a whole, Can you people suggest me a Good GUI/ commandline Filesystem Monitoring tool. I googled and found inotify but if you can suggest some sound easy to install Filesystem MOnitoring Tool?

your_shadow03 · 11-07-2009, 01:53 AM

I want to monitor complete File System through GUI/commandline.I can see that Someone is running a script under some sub-to-sub directory and its deleting few files. All I need is monitoring tool. Like I tried installing fspy and it does monitor the changes online.
But it has certain limitation like its unable to track who is really running the command, which sub-script its running, what files getting deleted and so on.

Anyone who can suggest for the same.

kbp · 11-07-2009, 08:32 AM

fam has been around for a while...

your_shadow03 · 11-07-2009, 10:31 AM

Thanks Kbp..

Any other Good Tool for suggestion?

Hangdog42 · 11-07-2009, 12:44 PM

Are you thinking of something like Aide or samhain? They are both intended as security tools, but they monitor adding, deleting and changing files.

unSpawn · 11-07-2009, 04:46 PM

This basically is a dupe thread of http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...g-tool-767471/.