On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:43:26AM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> BTW, I suspect the "use the audit subsystem to replace
> slocate" idea might even make history, since it is also
> useful for backup programs, hierarchical storage
> management and who knows what else...
There is already a tool called rlocate, that uses its own kernel module
to forward change events to userspace daemon that keeps a database up-to-date:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rlocate/
It should be relatively straightforward to replace the user/kernel interface
with audit.
Regards,
-Bill Rugolsky
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