[clue] file-system activity logging

Will Sterling will.sterling at gmail.com
Mon Jan 9 10:48:32 MST 2012


Can you audit the file system on the NFS server instead of the client?

On Jan 9, 2012, at 10:44 AM, "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:

> audit / auditd / kernel auditing is definitely the most correct answer to my original question. I'd run into it during my mad Googling, but I had gotten the (false) impression that it only watched specific files.
>
> Now, I'm working on a follow-up question: Is there a way to hook the mounting of a file-system (or just nfs file systems). i.e.: What if the nfs resource I care about auditing gets mounted at an unexpected location after I've begun auditing?
>
> Ideally, I want to be able to confidently say that I've audited every file open attempt over nfs during a particular window of time.
>
> Google, google, read, study...
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> David L. Willson wrote:
>>> Anyone got a strategy for recording every file open on a particular
>>> mount?
>>
>> fam or inotify-tools seem to do that sort of thing.
>>
>> Dave
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