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# 15  
Old 10-12-2007
CPU & Memory have a look at this. !

#SCRIPT TO CHECK WHO HAS ACCESSED THE LOG/FILE IN PAST 'N' MINUTES, AND MAIL ACCORDINGLY.

MYPATH="/clocal/mqbrkrs/user/sanjay/"
MAIL_RECIPIENTS="abc@def.com"
Subject="File accessed in last few minutes are ::"
>tempmail.txt
>tempfind.txt

## List all the files which one accessed since last 1 min #####

for file_dir in `find $MYPATH -amin -1`
do
### Find out the PID for that files which one been accessed
pids = ''
#fuser -f "$file_dir" > tempfind.txt
#pid=$(tr -dc "[:digit:]\n" < tempfind.txt)
pids=`fuser -f "$file_dir" | tr -dc "[:digit:]"`
echo "$pids"

### Find out the owner/user name for that Process
### Replace the $access_user_filed with the filed no from the ps -ef
### command
user = `ps -ef | grep -w "$pid" | awk '{ print $1 }'`
echo " $file_dir access by the $user " >> tempmail.txt
done

cat tempmail.txt | mailx -s "$Subject" "$MAIL_RECIPIENTS"



Prblem is, I am not getting o/p in tempmail.txt file.
Please guide me on this !!

Thanks in advance !!Smilie
# 16  
Old 10-15-2007
i tried the above all scripts, the users who has accessed the files is not displaying in the mail which i recieve,

thanks
# 17  
Old 10-15-2007
All the scripts are using fuser, which will send you an alert only if the script runs when the user is accessing the file. As porter has already mentioned, it will give no details for access in the interval between script invocations. Suggest checking out the link that ghostdog74 has posted.
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