How to find out what created a file

From: Björn Lindström (bkhl_at_elektrubadur.se)
Date: 05/02/04

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    To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 13:56:53 +0200

    I've recently rented a jailed FreeBSD system, and have this little
    problem:

    Now and then, this file is created in my home directory:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 root users 6 May 1 20:20 /home/bkhl/-

    The contents of the file is the string "xyzzy\n".

    Now I never say "xyzzy", so I'm pretty sure I haven't set this up by
    mistake.

    To find out where this happens, how could I monitor this file name for
    activity, to find out what command is creating it? 

    -- 
Björn Lindström <bkhl@elektrubadur.se>
http://bkhl.elektrubadur.se/
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