fnotifystat command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

fnotifystat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fnotifystat: command not found

Solutions to fnotifystat: command not found

How To Fix fnotifystat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fnotifystat is provided by fnotifystat package.

fnotifystat is:

Fnotifystat periodically dumps out the activity on files in the system. It can be used to identify rogue file activity and discover which processes are performing open/close/read/write operations on the files.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fnotifystat

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fnotifystat.

sudo apt -y install fnotifystat

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fnotifystat

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fnotifystat command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.