Re: File Monitoring under Mac OS X
Re: File Monitoring under Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: File Monitoring under Mac OS X
- From: Krishna Monian <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:34:27 -0700 (PDT)
Hi,
I have been trying to get the FreeBSD port of FAM to
run on Mac OS X 10.3.4 (Panther). However, I haven't
had any luck so far.
Could someone guide me on how I should go about doing
this. I am new to the Mac, so a detailed description
will be helpful.
From what I have figured so far, I need to install the
mntent extension. I am not sure whether this is
possible under the Mac or not. Help on this will also
be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Krishna Monian
--- Olivier Kaloudoff <email@hidden> wrote:
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>Hi All,
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Hi Sir Monian,
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>I am currently trying to write a file logger, which
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>logs every single file access (read, write, delete)
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on
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>a specified volume.
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>Could someone brief me on what would the best way
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be
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>to go about doing this. Would it have to be in
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kernel
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>mode or can it be done in user mode?
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You might take a look at SGI FAM, the File
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Alteration Monitor,
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that is already available for many flavors of unix,
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including
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*BSD. Some posts in the forums show that port for
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osx has been
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at least tried if not already succeeded;
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http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
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What is FAM?
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FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API
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that applications can
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use to be notified when specific files or
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directories are changed.
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FAM comes in two parts: fam, the daemon that listens
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for requests and
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delivers notification, and libfam, a library that
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client applications can
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use to communicate with fam.
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FAM was originally written for IRIX in 1989 by Bruce
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Karsh, and was
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rewritten in 1995 by Bob Miller. This open-source
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release of FAM builds
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and runs on both Linux and IRIX, and is almost
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identical to the version of
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FAM that ships with IRIX 6.5.x.
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Maybe would be worth to join the port effort ?
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Regards,
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Olivier Kaloudoff
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LUG Linux Azur
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http://www.linux-azur.org
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