The Gamin package contains a File Alteration Monitor which is useful for notifying applications of changes to the file system. Gamin is compatible with FAM.
Download (HTTP): http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/sources/gamin-0.1.9.tar.gz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/distfiles/gamin-0.1.9.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 2d3a6a70df090ed923238e381e6c2982
Download size: 632 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (up to 3 minutes, processor independent, to run the test suite)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gamin
Install Gamin by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin && make
To test the results, issue: make check. Note that some tests may display errors.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gamin-0.1.9 && install -v -m644 doc/*.{html,fig,gif,txt} /usr/share/doc/gamin-0.1.9
No configuration is generally required and the default options should work for most users. See http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html for details.
Last updated on 2008-03-09 22:43:40 -0500