FAMD(8) SGI FAMD(8)NAMEfamd - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon
SYNOPSISfamd [-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
fam.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 authenti‐
cation 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.
SECURITYfamd never opens the files it's monitoring, and only monitors files
that the client can stat.
FILES
/etc/fam.conf
Default famd configuration file.
SEE ALSOfam(3), fam.conf(5), inetd(8), portmap(8), stat(1), xinetd(8)BUGSfamd (fam 2.6.10) January 19, 2003 FAMD(8)
