It's not provided by EL5 nor by EL4, but FAM (the File Alteration Monitor ) is an alternative solution that works regardless of what kernel you have. FAQ: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html Using FAM with Qt and GTK+: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/qt_gtk.html Look what you have in other distros: http://packages.debian.org/etch/fam/i386/filelist Some doc: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=famd&sektion=8&a mp;apropos=0 http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fam.conf&sektion= 5&apropos=0 http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=fam&sektion=3&am p;apropos=0 http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man8/famd.8.php http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man5/famd.conf.5.php http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man3/fam.3.php There is also a C++ wrapper for fam: http://fampp.sourceforge.net/ You should get fampp2, not fampp: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13334 You might run into dependencies issues while building it, but FAM used to be a good solution some time ago. R-C
