[geeks] Equivelents of SGI's FAM

[Caleb Shay]

Don't know about *BSD and Solaris, but under Linux, if I want FAM like 
functionality, I use....FAM. :)  From the FAQ it apparently runs on BSD 
distributions too.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/

To avoid the whole polling issue, I use the DNotify patch to fam

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/contrib/dnotify.patch


Cheers,

Caleb

jdboyd at jdboyd.zill.net wrote:

>On OSs like NetBSD and Solaris in particular (but also anything else unixy), 
>by what methods does one achieve file monitering like SGI's FAM does, or is
>better still?
>
>For instance, FAM can only monitor a directory, not the sub directories.
>Something that can do subdirectories would be really great.
>
>Obviously, ones application can just repeatedly pole the directory 
>structure, but that seems suboptimal from a resource usage point of view.
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