[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: How to tell what process accessed a file



On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 04:25:48AM +0700, Jean Christophe André wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 01:50:06PM -0600, hanasaki wrote:
> > > what package and deamon does the audit of every file executed?
> 
> Selon Jan Minar <Jan.Minar@seznam.cz>:
> > RSBAC has such a facility.
> > Executing is done by calling execve(2).  The section number `2' informs
> > us this is a system call.  Therefore, such an accounting must be
> > kernel-based to be reliable.  No daemon/package alone can do the job.
> 
> The current kernel BSD-accounting implementation allows to track processes
> execution too. It's enougth for basic investigations and does not need a
> kernel re-compile. See the "acct" package.

Ah.  Thank you for the info.  I do stand corrected.

-- 
Jan Minar                   "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 9

Attachment: pgpWN7gayqyOv.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: