Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-20 Thread Steven
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:48 -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: > >"strace" will do what you want, but it's awkward to use if this app is >being called by something else. The easiest way might be to use a >small script as a placeholder for the application: > > you% mv /path/to/app /path/t

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-19 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200, >> Steven said: S> Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a S> certain application touches? More importantly, writes to. Something S> like "filestouched vi filename" which would then report 'filename' as S> being used. "strac

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Steven writes: >> So you manually start program-A and program-A starts program-B right? > > Yes, exactly, I was not clear on that in my first message, but that is > the case. Program-B will then read and write from/to a file, and I would > like to know which file. I am assuming you are on i386 or

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-18 Thread Steven
On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 02:33 +, T o n g wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:33:45 +0200, Steven wrote: > > >> > Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a > >> > certain application touches? > > What exactly do you mean by "touch" here? Read or write from/to that file,

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-17 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:33:45 +0200, Steven wrote: >> > Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a >> > certain application touches? What exactly do you mean by "touch" here? > . . . > My problem is that the program is being launched by another program, > which I start

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-17 Thread Steven
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 21:54 +0200, Davide Mancusi wrote: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200 > Steven wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a > > certain application touches? More importantly, writes to. > > Something like "filestouched

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-17 Thread Davide Mancusi
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200 Steven wrote: > Hi list, > > Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a > certain application touches? More importantly, writes to. > Something like "filestouched vi filename" which would then report > 'filename' as being used.

Re: see what files are touched by a program

2010-10-17 Thread Davide Mancusi
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:57:36 +0200 Steven wrote: > Hi list, > > Can anyone point me to a program that will let me know what files a > certain application touches? More importantly, writes to. > Something like "filestouched vi filename" which would then report > 'filename' as being used.