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FAM - Notifies users when specific files or directories are changed

FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API which applications can use to be notified when specific files or directories are changed. It comes in two parts: fam, the daemon which listens for requests and delivers notification, and libfam, a library which client applications can use to communicate with fam

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/
Source tarballftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/fam-2.6.10.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download.html
Latest versionftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/fam-latest.tar.gz
Version 2.6.10 (stable) released on 2003-04-15
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ available in HTML format from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html; User manpage available in HTML format frm http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/doc.html; User guide available in HTML format from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/doc.html
Support contacts

Help List<fam@oss.sgi.com> <majordomo@oss.sgi.com> body: subscribe fam [your mail address] http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/mail.html

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • See the AUTHORS file in the distribution for a complete list

Related information

Interfaceslibrary, daemon
Programsfam, libfam
Source languagesC++
Use requirementsportmap
Weak prerequisitesxinetd

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-04-15
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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