Apr 28, 2011 · The date at which a file was last read is called its access time, or atime for short. All unix filesystems can store it, but many systems don't record it, because it has a (usually small) …

A monitor based on inotify, a Linux kernel subsystem that reports file system changes to applications. A monitor based on File Events Notification, a Solaris/Illumos kernel API that reports file events.

Nov 11, 2020 · 4 For the general case you want to monitor a file, and send a desktop notification with the new file content only when the content has changed, you can use inotifywait (from inotify-tools) …

Mar 9, 2017 · For example, inotifywait -mr dir/ monitors changes in the given directory and instantly gives you feedback of any application trying to open/read/write/close a file. However, inotify doesn't …

74 I know I can view the open files of a process using lsof at that moment in time on my Linux machine. However, a process can open, alter and close a file so quickly that I won't be able to see it when …

I'd like to do some general disk io monitoring on a debian linux server. What are the tools I should know about that monitor disk io so I can see if a disk's performance is maxed out or spikes at c...

Oct 17, 2022 · 2 My business purpose is to monitor the remote file system on Linux, and if there are any new files, SFTP them to another machine and delete them. However, the limitation is that I cannot …

FYI, while tail is the tool for the job, literally open a text file and let it update itself can be achived with watch cat filename.

Aug 17, 2010 · I would like to monitor one process's memory / cpu usage in real time. Similar to top but targeted at only one process, preferably with a history graph of some sort.

Apr 10, 2025 · Loggedfs - had limited success with this, could log file creations/updates but didn't log the names of deletions fatrace - similar to loggedfs bpftrace - worked ok on a client nfs mount for most …