Hello. Can anyone give me any pointers to info about monitoring file access on a linux file server? I am fairly easily able to monitor how much space is used, how many files there are, who owns them and so on, but what I really need is a log of who accessed what file, the time they did it and how long they had it open for. After googling for a bit I can find lots of tools that will tell me how much disk space is in use, but I don't care about how *big* the file is, only how often it's accessed and by whom. The file systems are shared using nfs and samba, so users could use either of those methods to access the file. I guess that I could probably get somewhere by turning up the debug level on the daemons, but I feel that would put a big load on the server and log a lot of other information that I don't want. Has anyone come across any software that can do some or all of this sort of monitoring automatically? Obviously, kgrellm can tell me instantaneous disk access stats, and mrtg can plot data about, say, disk space in use, however nothing seems to offer file access / user info. Any and all suggestions welcome. Thanks. Paul - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
