[KLUG Members] triggering a program

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > > So, if I can't use a db trigger, are there other ideas?
> > It gets much uglier.  I don't know enough about MySQL but can you
> > identify the file that contains the table in question?  You can probably
> > watch it for modification via fam and then poll it for changes.
> > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html#why_use_fam
> O.K., I tried "whereis fam" on the box in question and got
> fam: /usr/include/fam.h
> I expected /usr/bin/fam or something similar.  Should I assume it isn't
> installed?

There should be a fam deamon running, and there should be a
utility /usr/bin/fileschanged

awilliam at aleph:~> ps ax | grep fam
 5584 ?        Ss     0:05 /usr/sbin/fam -t 4 -T 0 -L

> If so, will I need root access to install it?

I think so.  I'd assume it is split into two packages -
awilliam at aleph:~> rpm -q fam
fam-2.6.10-130.2
awilliam at aleph:~> rpm -q fam-server
fam-server-2.6.10-130.2

> BTW, uname -a reports: 2.6.14-1.1637_FC4, so it must be Fedora Core 4.

Which I also *assume* would include FAM.
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