wanna generate log file of inode creation under a directory

qamarhafeez · 01-20-2012, 01:34 PM

I want to monitor a directory, which file is created or deleted with its name, time and path under that directory... Is there any way to monitor the file creation/deletion action

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Originally Posted by qamarhafeez

I want to monitor a directory, which file is created or deleted with its name, time and path under that directory... Is there any way to monitor the file creation/deletion action

Thanks in advance

jthill · 01-20-2012, 03:11 PM

The facility you want is inotify. It works on directories, but not recursively so far as I recall. There's an inotify-tools package that includes an inotifywait demonstrator that can be fairly useful in shell scripts.