On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 23:47:19 -0800 Paul Allen Newell <pnewell0705@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/20/22 20:17, Jerry James wrote: > > If you can't figure this out otherwise, here's a heavyweight > > solution. Install the systemtap package. Run "sudo stap-prep". > > Put this in a file named, say, events.stp, and replace "<username>" > > with your actual username: > > > > ``` > > probe vfs.open > > { > > if (pathname == "/home/<username>/events.json") > > printf("events.json created by %s (pid %d, uid %d)\n", > > execname(), pid(), uid()) > > } > > ``` > > > > That's crude, because it doesn't check that the file is opened in > > create mode, but it will do for your case. Delete events.json, then > > run "sudo stap events.stp". Come back later and see if it has > > printed anything. If I run "touch events.json" in another shell, > > for example, it prints: > > > > events.json created by touch (pid 39957, uid 1000) > > > > Press Ctrl-C to exit from stap when you are done. > > Jerry: > > Can you give a bit more info on this. Where does "events.stp" need to > live and is the material in your ''' all that needs to be in the file > (the use of ''' implies there is something else either before and/or > after This is from the stap man page: The stap program is the front-end to the Systemtap tool. It accepts probing instructions written in a simple domain-specific language, translates those instructions into C code, compiles this C code, and loads the resulting module into a running Linux kernel or a Dyninst user-space mutator, to perform the requested system trace/probe functions. You can supply the script in a named file (FILENAME), from standard input (use - instead of FILENAME), or from the command line (using -e SCRIPT). The program runs until it is interrupted by the user, or if the script voluntarily invokes the exit() function, or by sufficient number of soft errors. This is just a snippet of code that stap will implement when you run it on the file. I think the three ... are just markers to indicate the code. As to where it should go, a file in your home directory is fine. You would have to run the sudo stap events.stp in the directory where it resides, or use a path to the executable. Or maybe sudo stap -e events.stp from what I can see in the manual. Caveat: I haven't used stap, just got this from the extensive man page. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue