Logging file transfers
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Sat Oct 28 15:00:09 GMT 2000
Jarrod Sayers wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are currently running a student shares server with
> Samba and have recently had people storing files in their
> areas that shouldnt be there. Our main IT unit has asked
> for logs of when these files are being accessed. This is
> too late now but for next semester, is there a way of
> logging just the file name, action and user so we can
> combat this in the future. Is it something that
> could be simply written?
This should be possible by catching the file open. I would
recommend making this a service level parameter as you
will probably take a performance hit due to extra disk IO
caused by logging.
Cheers, jerry
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