Is there any way to know which process had created any file in Linux Red Hat/CentOS 5?

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If you don't have any process that monitors these changes/creations than you have no way to know which process actually created a file or did anything.

This link may help you start with files auditing : Linux audit files to see who made changes to a file

In case you are a programmer you may be interested in "Monitor Linux file system events with inotify"

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inotify doesn't give the process ID; you would need to use fanotify for that. – grawity May 16 '11 at 20:21
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No. You can only monitor future file creation by using the auditing subsystem.

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