On windows turn on the auditing for the file you want to watch. Or go the whole hog and install Tripwire.
Tripwire runs on both Windows and Unix systems. Worth a look at because they have some new stuff added which is quite nice. On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 18:22, Raghu Uppalli wrote: > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 05:42, Mike wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I understand there is a way to tell when a file was last _read_ by a user. > > (as opposed to when it was created) > > Does anybody know how to do this ? > > under linux ? > You can use stat command or the fstat() C function for this purpose. > It lists the file's access time apart from other things. > > > under windows??? > right click on the file in explorer and select properties i > guess. > > hth, > --Raghu Uppalli. > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Mike > > > >
