Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!ncar!tank!phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu From: phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Are there PD programs that... Message-ID: <5620@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 1 Oct 89 22:55:01 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business Lines: 16 >> (2) that tells a su when an application opens any file >> (for read/write/ or execute) ? Would this have to go >> into the kernel? > >This would require kernel support. Why would you need this? I found this to be an extremely useful feature when trying to figure out what foreign programs do. For example, not being a mail wizard, I would like to see where my implementation of mail is looking for guidance (i.e. files to read information from) when sending mail. I realize that there are other sources for mail information, but mail was of course only an example. Thanks for the script to monitor login/logouts. ivo welch iwelch@agsm.ucla.edu