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  • Thank you Gilles.. I have this dat file created by the script. I just want to know what happens to that file after it is being created.. non of the other scripts are picking it for further process so I want to see if someone is manually accessing that dat file Commented Apr 28, 2011 at 21:13
  • @Jack: It's hard to say without knowing a lot more about your setup, but as long as nothing removes or renames the file, it'll be there for the other scripts to pick it up, whether or not someone else is accessing it. From your comment, I think you should be looking at what happens when you run your scripts. Commented Apr 28, 2011 at 21:17
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    Hey, you could create a nice circular loop with this: syslogd access log file /var/log/audit.log at 10:01\nsyslogd access log file /var/log/audit.log at 10:02\n... Commented Apr 28, 2011 at 21:24
  • inotifywait call should probably be inotifywait -me access /path/to (note the m). Otherwise it will exit after the first event. Commented Dec 7, 2020 at 11:32