On 04Jan2008 19:26, Jeffrey Ross <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > is it possible to monitor a file system to see what files have been open > (and closed), and if so, how? > The device in this case would be a USB CD-rom drive and the filesystem > would be the disk in it. The inotify system may do the trick for you. See "man 7 inotify" for details. I expect there must be some handy utilities around that use it. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ "Nervous?" "Yes" "First Time?" "No, I've been nervous lots of times"