Re: [tlug] fuser

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 05:34:00PM +0900, B0Ti wrote:
> 
> I have a file that's being appended to periodically, but can't find out what process is doing it.
> 
> Is there any program that watches for processes accessing a file ?
> If I use "fuser", it quits immediately. Read through the manpage again, but didn't find any switch that would make it run in daemon mode and wait there until a process accesses a file.
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> -- 
> B0Ti.
> 

I assume you have tried lsof in a shell script, and it doesn't fit the bill
for one reason or another?

--Matt

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