File monitor (like Sysinternal's Filemon) for Linux?

Standard Toaster

Is there a file monitor, similar to FileMon from Sysinternals, for Linux?
I can use lsof but it's not quite what I'm looking for.

Thanks

Skrynesaver

Could you specify your requirements more completely?

Many of us have little or no dealing with Windows hosts but are quite experienced in monitoring / tracing issues in Unix / Linux

Standard Toaster

I 'had' a nagios perl module that works fine when run as root but failed to load when ran as a standard user. I managed, through trial and error, to track it down to a permissions issue which is now working fine.

This brought me to my question, if I had something that could monitor file access success/fails in realtime I could have fixed the issue far more quicky.

Box is a Red Hat 6.4 server, 64bit.

Google tells me to have a look at strace which I will when time permits.

Thanks!

ressem

How about auditd/kauditd to log the file accesses of your particular process?

Then use tail -f <logfile> | grep "success=no" to view in (buffered) realtime


(Use of auditd)
http://reiber.org/nxt/bin/view/Linux/Kauditd

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strace will tell you every api call a process makes. It's very useful.

Standard Toaster

Cheers guys, I'll check those out tomorrow morning and report back