[CentOS] trace?

[hadi motamedi]

On 10/11/11, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> wrote:
> Vreme: 10/11/2011 08:07 AM, hadi motamedi piše:
>> On 10/10/11, John Doe<jdmls at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>> From: Eero Volotinen<eero.volotinen at iki.fi>
>>>
>>>> 2011/10/10 hadi motamedi<motamedi24 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>   I have installed an announcement application on my centos 6.0 server
>>>>>   that calls for putting specific voice announcement files under
>>>>>   /usr/local/srf/bin/prompt to be played in response to certain
>>>>>   conditions occurred . There are a huge number of files in the
>>>>>   announcement directory and it seems that just one of these voice
>>>>> files
>>>>>   is corrupt . Can you please let me know how can I trace in real time
>>>>>   to see which application is going to use this folder and which of
>>>>>   these files will be accessed at the moment ? My goal is to find that
>>>>>   corrupted voice file in real time .
>>>>
>>>> How about something like this:
>>>> watch -n 1 lsof /path/to/files
>>>
>>> Or maybe:
>>>    inotifywait -m -e access --format "%T %f" --timefmt "%D %T" -r
>>> /path/to/files
>>>
>>> JD
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>> Excuse me, the announcement application program is accessing this
>> folder from time to time to play the appropriate voice announcement
>> file . As there are a huge number of voice files inside this folder,
>> so I need some way to trace to see which file is being accessed when
>> hearing the corrupted voice file . I tried for your "watch"&
>> "inotifywait" utilities but I didn't see any log even when
>> intentionally trying to ftp some files into this folder. It seems that
>> my previous explanation of the problem was not so clear. Sorry again .
>> What can I do to find an appropriate trace method for my case in your
>> opinion ?
>
> Maybe this can help:
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-get-list-of-open-files/
>
> Basically, monitor that application to see what files it opens. Maybe
> grep to filter only files from specific directory.
>
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Thank you very much for your help. At now, it seems that I have all of
the tools to deal with my problem.