is there anyway to tell when an activity is happening on a file.
i'm talking about something deeper than what ls -l can give.
when i say activity, i want to know exactly when any commands was run on a specific file. i.e, did anyone run the mail command on this file. did anyone cat this file. did anyone, cp this file anywhere. is this possible in unix?
LS(1) User Commands LS(1)
NAME
ls - list directory contents
SYNOPSIS
ls [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
List information about the FILEs (the current directory by default). Sort entries
alphabetically if none of -cftuSUX nor --sort.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
...
-u with -lt: sort by, and show, access time with -l: show access time and sort
by name otherwise: sort by access time
Other than checking the last access time, no, there is no detailed information about how/what programs accessed a file. Get a man on 'stat' if you want to know what information about a file is stored.
Actually i am working on datastage and my operating system is Unix
So I want a script in UNIX env for intimating the datastage log at the time of job abort.
Can you please help me out ..
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