Search Forums. Show Threads. Show Posts. Shell Programming and Scripting. How to monitor a unix folder? Registered User. Join Date: Dec Hi All, I have a folder on Sun Solaris 5. How can I work around this issue? Thanks, Bizheng. Administrator Emeritus. Join Date: Mar Have you tried looking at ctime instead of mtime? Thanks all for your replies, really appreciated!
Join Date: Apr Originally Posted by bizheng. The semantics of stat vary between operating systems. Note, that ctime is not the time of file creation. Overwriting a file changes mtime, ctime as well as atime. Select the Process Monitor "Filter Filter This will display the "Process Monitor Filter" dialog. Set a new filter by setting the "Display entries matching those conditions" fields to, for example,.
A well designed filter will display almost no information in Process Monitor until the issue occurs. Thus any information noted by Process Monitor will very likely be related to the issue being tracked. Note : If the problem is intermittent or occurs only rarely you will need to delete or rotate Process Monitor logs regularly.
If the problem is occurring regularly, such as an ongoing "File rename failed after 10 attempts":. Right-click the column headings in process monitors and select the "Select Columns The "Process Monitor Column Selection" dialog is displayed. If the thread is owned by the Perforce service p4s. Note : You can also save the file as CSV comma separated values so the file can be read by a spreadsheet or other database software. Look for errors in the Result column, or double-click any line entry and check whether the stack has any extra entries, such as processes from a virus scanner or a backup program.
To find long run times possibly related to performance problems:. Note : It is often useful to compare the results with a system that is performing well, if available. On Linux systems, see Monitoring Unix filesystems with auditctl.
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Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. To log what happens to a file in the future, there are a few ways: Use inotifywait. Improve this answer. Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Thank you Gilles.. I have this dat file created by the script. I just want to know what happens to that file after it is being created..
Jack: It's hard to say without knowing a lot more about your setup, but as long as nothing removes or renames the file, it'll be there for the other scripts to pick it up, whether or not someone else is accessing it. From your comment, I think you should be looking at what happens when you run your scripts.
Otherwise it will exit after the first event. Glen Glen 71 1 1 bronze badge. Welcome to Stack Exchange. I wonder which of the other two you're referring to anyway: one doesn't have anything that looks like good or bad practice, and the other one does mention the inotify API. Most probably Glen refers to the answer above with default vote sorting. Indeed the most popular answer fails to present a solution to the question.
There may be a number of reasons for which one might need to see how many times a files gets accessed for a given time frame.
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