From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 16:11:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD4616A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:11:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@traceroute.dk) Received: from cicero2.cybercity.dk (cicero2.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A0F43D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:11:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from db@traceroute.dk) Received: from user4.cybercity.dk (user4.cybercity.dk [212.242.41.50]) by cicero2.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AA918F7ED for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:10:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from trinita (port132.ds1-arsy.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.239.73]) by user4.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE6C25026F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:10:58 +0100 (CET) From: db To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:11:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511161611.06437.db@traceroute.dk> Cc: Subject: Monitoring a program X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:11:02 -0000 Hi all I would like to know what files a program access during it's life time (and maybe also the internet connections it makes), how should I do this? I have considered fstat, find, ktrace and searching the source or binary for path strings, but I guess I need a hook for open(). I'm running 5.4 on a ia32, but if there is a 6.x only program it is also welcome. Best regards db