LoggedFS(1)

📦 version 0.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing

💖 LoggedFS 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the LoggedFS manual page — it lives in the General Commands Manual section (1), and it's about to become your new hyperfixation. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

LoggedFS — filesystem monitoring with Fuse 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

loggedfs [-fp] [-c config-file ] [-l log-file ] directory ...

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: LoggedFS is a transparent fuse-filesystem, and its whole thing — its entire main character energy — is that it logs every operation that happens in the backend filesystem. every single one. it's giving surveillance but make it cute 💅

where do the logs go, you ask? you've got options, bestie:

  • syslog
  • a file
  • standard output

and here's the iconic part: LoggedFS ships with an XML configuration file where you get to choose exactly what you want to log and what you do not want to log. you're the curator. you're the editor. you're the vibe check 👑

and you can add filters on:

  • users
  • operations (open, read, write, chown, chmod, etc.)
  • filenames
  • return code

and the filename filters? those are regular expressions. so yeah, you can get as specific as your little heart desires. obsessed. 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f — do not start as a daemon. and if you didn't specify a log file, the logs go straight to stdout. lowkey the move when you wanna watch it live ✨
  • -c config-file — use the config-file to filter what you want to log. this is where you tell LoggedFS what's worth your attention 🎀
  • -l log-file — use the log-file to write logs to. and listen: if no log file is specified, then logs are only written to syslog or to stdout, depending on -f. that's the whole deal, fr fr.
  • -p — allow every user to see the new loggedfs. sharing is caring 🫶

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/fuse.conf — the system wide configuration file.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Remi Flament <remipouak@gmail.com> — the icon who made all of this happen 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

k that's the whole page bestie, every flag, every file, every crumb of it. go log something iconic 💖✨

mwah 💋 — this was User Manuals, dated JANUARY 2007, and the page is LoggedFS(1). periodt.

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