FAM

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Introduction

The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon is used by desktop environments such as a GNOME and Xfce to monitor and report changes to the filesystem. FAM is also used by the Samba server daemon. Note that KDE no longer uses FAM, they have moved to the kernel based inotify which requires no special configuration.

Installation

FAM will usually be installed as a dependency for another package. It can be explicitly installed with:

pacman -S fam

Configuration

FAM can be started manually with:

/etc/rc.d/fam start

To start FAM at boot add fam to your DAEMONS line in rc.conf. If you are using the NetworkManager daemon fam must be after networkmanager

More Resources

FAM

FAM, Gamin and inotify