Getting notified when a process runs

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  • bcc

    BCC - Tools for BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more

  • Probably the easiest way will be to modify this script: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/master/tools/execsnoop.py

  • bpftrace

    Discontinued High-level tracing language for Linux eBPF [Moved to: https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace]

  • Similar to this method is bpftrace: https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/tools/execsnoop.bt

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