Can fam do this [was] vanishing fam-2.6.10-11

[Harry Putnam]

Douglas Furlong <douglas.furlong at firebox.com> writes:

> It's more monitoring changes in the file system then changes in the
> files them selves (or at least that is my impression).
>
> I get the feeling your looking more for some thing along the lines of
> diff, which compares new and old files. Does that sound correct?

Yes.  I'm thinking of something that reports content of file changes
as they happen.  This something might employ `diff' I guess.  Maybe a
homemade daemon that notices changes then runs diff...