I’m trying to run a java app that creates settings/configuration files, but I’m not sure where and how exactly it’s creating those said files. For that I was thinking perhaps I could log any filesystem changes in a dragnet way (as in, log the entire filesystem). Would anyone know how to do that without much hassle? Tried inotifywatch but it did not seem to want to log the entire filesystem (or it took it too much to establish watchers, probably because the wide area of search)
Or is there perhaps a better way to determine where the java app or the java environment saves those configuration files? Thank you.
I’d try:
lsof (shows processes x open files)
or
strace (shows system calls, including file access)
Check the answers for this question:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/58887/how-do-i-monitor-opened-files-of-a-process-in-realtime
Thanks for the help! With the -ff option in strace I was able to tell it to branch out to all the sub-processes that are launched. Due to this, I don’t think lsof is going to be useful in my case, at least not without pulling my hair out, haha.
Fortunately I was able to find exactly what I needed with strace, even though it was a bit like finding the needle in the haystack.