fam

File Alteration Monitoring Daemon

Fam is a file alteration monitoring service. With it, you can receive signals when files are created or changed. This package provides libfam, which is used by KDE and GNOME. It also provides a tool for the console called fileschanged. To use fam notifications (it can reduce the network load on NFS servers, especially if they host user home directories) you need to run the fam daemon, which can be found in the fam-server package.