Is there a program which lists files changed

[sc0ttman]

I'd like a program that lists all the files that get changed by another program as the other program is running...

For example:

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theprog /usr/sbin/fixmenus

would list all the files that get modified by fixmenus in the terminal...

Is there a program that exists for this?
Should I post this in the programming section instead?

[amigo]

installwatch or libsentry might work -epending on what tool fixmenus uses to actually make the changes.

[sc0ttman]

installwatch or libsentry might work -epending on what tool fixmenus uses to actually make the changes.

thanks amigo, i'll check them out... technically i wanna use it for a range of things, like pupx, Input Wizard and other random things... anything that edits config files without telling you specifically what it's editing...

[amigo]

You can get libsentry here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/amigolinux/do ... .2.tar.bz2
The 'program' itself is 'sentry' and you use it just like installwatch:
'sentry your commands'
It always needs two inputs, so if your are tracking a shell script which you would ordinarily simply call 'my-script', then use sentry like this:
'sentry sh my-script'

installwatch and sentry will only track the activity of normally compiled programs (not statically compiled). There are other solutions which will cover anything, but are a bit harder to get going.