Filesystem monitoring question

Soeren Straarup xride at x12.dk
Thu Nov 17 16:18:01 GMT 2005


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Cornelis Swanepoel wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD 6.0 box with a partition that is accessible to a number of
> clients via SMB and NFS.
>
> I would like to monitor activity on this partition so that every time a
> write to it is completed, my C program is run (which stats the file and
> stores some info about it in a database amongst other things)
>
> My question is: What do I need to learn in order to construct a trigger for
> my code?
>
> If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Cornelis

I don't know if this is what your looking for:

/usr/src/usr.sbin/gstat

\Søren

Soeren Straarup   | aka OZ2DAK aka Xride
FreeBSD wannabe   | FreeBSD since 2.2.6-R
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     had been taken away..' Mulder


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