Use kfsmd to Keep Track of Changes in Your Filesystems | Linux Today

Use kfsmd to Keep Track of Changes in Your Filesystems

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 26, 2008

“Applications can ask the Linux kernel to report changes to
selected files and directories. I created the Kernel Filesystem
Monitoring Daemon (kfsmd) to make monitoring filesystem changes
simple.

“There are packages available for both 32- and 64-bit Fedora 7
and 8 and Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, as well as 32-bit packages for
openSUSE 10.3. You can also download a repo file, which can be used
with Fedora 8 and yum. Placing the repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d
allows you to install kfsmd and its dependencies with yum install
kfsmd on a Fedora 8 machine. You can also compile directly from
source if that is your preference…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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