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Years and years and years ago, when I used DOS and early Windows versions, there was a tool that you could install that would monitor any and every file written to a computer when an application or package was installed. I find it hard to believe that there isn't something useful like that in the Linux world. Yet, I've been unable to find such a package or program. Does anyone know of a tool that would do this?

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Jörn Franke

in reply to Ercanbrack • 4 days ago • •

strace tracks system calls made by a command (man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/…). This also includes system calls to open and manipulate files.

If you use selinux and have restricted access for a specific application to files then you can use selinux audit log.

See also alternatives: stackoverflow.com/questions/27…

Linux - How to track all files accessed by a process?

Is there a way to track all file I/O for a given process? All I really need is the locations of files being read from/written to from a given process (and ideally if it was a read or write operation

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