Monitor filesystem for deletions

On a project I'm working on at the moment we have a problem, files are going missing.

We don't know which part of the system could be trashing these files (user uploaded images in this case) and they are on a shared filesystem so there are plenty of places to point fingers.

I've discovered a very handy toolset inotify-tools [1] Which hooks into the linix kernel and allows you to monitor actions like file deletion.

I my case all I need to do right now is monitor the files on each sytem that has access - and I'm hoping to catch which one does the delete

# stop monitoring for deletes through the build [ -f ~/inotifywait.pid ] && kill $(cat ~/inotifywait.pid)


git pull

./build.sh 
# if the tool is installed - monitor file delets

which inotifywait &-$(BUILD_NUMBER)-delete.log  &

 echo $! > ~/inotifywait.pid

}

This should create a log of any user files that get deleted between builds