RE: famd

["Florian Dorpmueller" <dorpmueller@hotmail.com>]

> Ich habe allerdings überhaupt keine Ahnung wozu famd für mich gut sein 
> soll.

famd is a component of the GNOME environment

NAME
famd - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon
SYNOPSIS
famd [-CdflLv] [-C conffile] [-p prog.vers] [-t period] [-T timeout]
DESCRIPTION
FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, is a subsystem that applications can use 
to be notified when specific files or directories are changed. It is 
intended as a replacement for mechanisms such as poll and select. FAM comes 
in two parts: famd, the daemon that listens for requests and provides 
notifications, and libfam, a library that client applications can use to 
communicate with FAM. For further information on libfam, see the fam(3) 
manual page. famd is normally started by an Internet superserver such as 
inetd or xinetd, but can also be started independently. Only one instance of 
famd can be run at a time. famd can be configured by editing the famd 
configuration file (see famd.conf(5) for further details) or by providing 
the following command line options:
OPTIONS

-c conffile
Read configuration information from conffile.
-C
Run in backwards compatibilty mode. This is disables authentication and is 
not recommended.
-f
Run in the foreground.
-v
Enable verbose messages.
-d
Enable verbose messages and debug messages.
-l
Disable polling of files on remote NFS servers.
-L
Only accept connections from local clients.
-p prog.vers
Register with the portmapper using the specifed RPC program and version 
numbers.
-t period
Poll a remove NFS server every period seconds to obtain file updates if the 
remove server is not running famd.
-T timeout
Exit timeout seconds after the last client disconnects. A value of 0 causes 
famd to run forever.


SECURITY
famd never opens the files it's monitoring, and only monitors files that the 
client can stat.
FILES

/usr/local/etc/famd.conf
Default famd configuration file.