<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Just looking at the fam package, and note that it is described as below (my highlighting): <blockquote>Package: fam Version: 2.7.0-17.1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com"><ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com></a> Original-Maintainer: Chuan-kai Lin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:cklin@debian.org"><cklin@debian.org></a> Bugs: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug</a> Installed-Size: 208 kB Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), portmap, update-inetd Homepage: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/">http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/</a> Download-Size: 54.1 kB APT-Sources: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu">http://ftp.iinet.net.au/pub/ubuntu</a> xenial/universe amd64 Packages Description: File Alteration Monitor FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. . This package provides a server that can monitor a given list of files and notify applications through a socket. If the kernel supports dnotify (kernels >= 2.4.x) FAM is notified directly by the kernel. Otherwise it has to poll the files' status. FAM can also provide an RPC service for monitoring remote files (such as on a mounted NFS filesystem). </blockquote> Given we're running 4.x kernels now, and inotify long replaced dnotify, I am curious if fam relies on dnotify or has in fact been adapted to use inotify and this package description is simply out of date. Not immediately easy to assume that it is in fact so out of date. Kind regards, Bernd. </body> </html>