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Old 01-20-2009
Find User
I have a file in my home directory and I want to know all the users who have tried to read the file from my directory and or access the particualr file.

Could someone helpme in this as to how I can proceed further?

Thanks.
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Old 01-20-2009
I don't know any standard UNIX tool to do that. So unless you have some kind of auditing daemon running that monitors file system activity there's little chance to get that information.
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Old 01-22-2009
How can I know what is the file strcuture in my system ?
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Old 01-22-2009
What do you mean by file structure?

File system? Directory tree?
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