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creatbyproc.d(1m)                               USER COMMANDS                              creatbyproc.d(1m)



NAME
       creatbyproc.d - snoop creat()s by process name. Uses DTrace.

SYNOPSIS
       creatbyproc.d

DESCRIPTION
       creatbyproc.d  is  a  DTrace OneLiner to print file creations as it occurs, including the name of the
       process calling the open.

       This matches file creates from the creat() system call; not all file creation  occurs  in  this  way,
       sometimes it is through open() with a O_CREAT flag, this script will not monitor that activity.

       Docs/oneliners.txt  and  Docs/Examples/oneliners_examples.txt  in the DTraceToolkit contain this as a
       oneliner that can be cut-n-paste to run.

       Since this uses DTrace, only the root user or users with the dtrace_kernel  privilege  can  run  this
       command.

EXAMPLES
       This prints process names and new pathnames until Ctrl-C is hit.
              # creatbyproc.d


FIELDS
       CPU    The CPU that recieved the event

       ID     A DTrace probe ID for the event

       FUNCTION:NAME
              The DTrace probe name for the event

       remaining fields
              The first is the name of the process, the second is the file pathname.


DOCUMENTATION
       See  the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may
       include full worked examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.

EXIT
       creatbyproc.d will run forever until Ctrl-C is hit.

AUTHOR
       Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]

SEE ALSO
       dtrace(1M)




version 1.00                                    Jun 11, 2005                               creatbyproc.d(1m)