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Old 01-22-2014
Who has modified a file - History?
Hello,

I'd want to know who and what time has modified a file in unix (history). I'd like to know all people who has modified a file.

Thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 01-22-2014
Hello Nurinolo,

Please use the stat file_name command it will give you all details.

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 3  
Old 01-22-2014
Hi Singh,

When I execute:
Code:
stat list.txt

I get:
Code:
ksh: stat: not found

Do you know why ?
Thanks
Last edited by vbe; 01-22-2014 at 09:52 AM..
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Old 01-22-2014
What's your OS?
# 5  
Old 01-22-2014
uname -a

SunOS 5.10 Generic_150401-03

Thanks
# 6  
Old 01-22-2014
To my knowledge stat is only a command in linux, for true UNIX stat is a C function described in man 2 section... so in solaris 10 look at the man pages to see how to use it...
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Old 01-28-2014
Even if you can use stat, it will only show the last user access, not a list of everyone that's modified a file in it's history.

To show that sort of data, you need to be logging it in the first place, solaris's BSM would probably be what you need (not helpful after the fact though, you'd have to have it set up prior).
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