[ILUG] Who has been eating my file?

[Ken Guest]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:00:12PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is there any simple way of watching a given file
> to see what program is altering it?
> 
> (Someone  - or something - is editing
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
> on my Fedora 6 system.)
> 

I was going to suggest 
$fuser -vu file

but that only identifies what process is altering the file at that given
moment. inotify should do the trick

k.

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