Download location (HTTP): http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/fam-2.6.9.tar.gz Download location (FTP): ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download/fam-2.6.9.tar.gz Version used: 2.6.9 Package size: 300 KB Estimated Disk space required: 350 KB |
The fam package contains a File Alteration Monitor.
fam depends on: portmap-5 |
Download the fam patches from http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches.
Install fam by running the following commands:
Note: You will get warnings about make install being unable to merge entries in /etc/rpc. These can be ignored, along with any IMON or inetd.conf warnings, as we will be configuring these files after installation.
patch -Np1 -i ../fam-dnotify.patch && patch -Np1 -i ../fam-gcc3.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc && make && make install |
patch -Np1 -i ../fam-dnotify.patch : This patch causes fam to use the Linux kernel dnotify mechanism to inform the calling process of file modifications, rather than polling the file system for.
patch -Np1 -i ../fam-gcc3.patch : This patch is necessary to get fam to compile with gcc-3.2.
/etc/rpc, /etc/fam.conf, /etc/inetd.conf, /etc/xinetd.d/fam or /etc/xinetd.conf
Configuring the file alteration monitor.
If you use inetd, add the fam entry to /etc/inetd.conf with the following command:
echo "sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/bin/fam fam" >> /etc/inetd.conf |
If you use xinetd, add an entry to /etc/xinetd.conf with the following command (be sure the "nogroup" group exists):
cat >> /etc/xinetd.conf << "EOF"
# description: FAM - file alteration monitor
service sgi_fam
{
type = RPC UNLISTED
socket_type = stream
user = root
group = nogroup
server = /usr/bin/fam
wait = yes
protocol = tcp
rpc_version = 2
rpc_number = 391002
}
EOF |
The fam package contains fam and libfam libraries.
fam is the file alteration monitor.