How can I know which files a proccess is accessing?

[pete wright]

On 6/6/06, Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org> wrote:
> Eduardo Meyer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to know which files under /var a proccess (httpd here) is
> > acessing. It is not logs because I have a different partition for
> > logs.
> >
> > gstat tells me that slice ad0s1h (my /var) is 100% frequently, and in
> > fact with fstat I can see a number of httpd proccesses running
> > accesing that. But fstat only shows me inodes and the mount point.
> >
> > I need to know which files the proccesses are acessing.
>
> find(1) can match inodes.  A quick example:
>
>  > fstat | grep 'httpd.*/var ' | awk '{print $6}' | xargs -n 1 sudo find
> -x /var -inum | sort -u
> /var/log/httpd-error.log
> /var/run/accept.lock.#
> /var/tmp/apr8530d5
> /var/tmp/aprF2Zs0e
>

Thanks for the oneliner Darren, that's going in my scripts dir right now ;)

-pete


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