First of all, hello everyone since I'm quite new in here.

I would like to know if there is any facility provided by linux in order to track down which files have been accessed by a running program. I have indeed a problem with a piece of software and I suspect a permission problem; however, I don't quite know what files to look at... A facility tracking those files would be a great help. Have you ever heard of any?

Hi EdwinNameless
Are you french?
Well first of all what do you mean?Do you want a count of how many times a file has been accessed or something else?
Could you elaborate on the 'permission' problem you think you have?
Robin
(sorry I am not supposed to ask your nationality but I kinda like france,I had a great friend from there,she was wonderful,maybe some mod will kick me out!)

have you tried lsof?

DESCRIPTION
Lsof revision 4.64 lists information about files opened by processes
for the following UNIX dialects:



lsof|grep appname

should do it

If the program fails right after it started you can use strace.
You can see all open and closes on files.
use it as :

strace program


Greets

Royss

Half French indeed.

No, I'd like to know which files a program has tried to gain access to, even those for which it didn't have permissions to do so. Something like: which would also display the files for which the permissions are denied.

I have set up Cyrus imap using pam but when I run imtest to connect onto imap, the message I get clearly shows one of the files does not have the proper permission rights. Since the error message is not quite clear and does not say who the culprit is, I am trying to find a way to know what the heck that file might be...

Geez, didn't know that one: it's brilliant! How to solve a one-day long problem in one command...

It still doesn't work for some other reasons but at least you gave me an excellent answer to my question. Thanks Royss. Thanks to m0rl0ck and rch for their help too.

Regards.