imon on FreeBSD

[Terry Lambert]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Stephan M?ck wrote:
> > I want to use imon inode monitor to watch file activity. Is it possible to
> > do that with FreeBSD?
> 
> I don't see imon in the ports collection.  However there are other
> tools like l0pht-watch and fam in ports (I don't know if fam uses
> kqueue on FreeBSD, so it may not operate efficiently).

The "imon" in question is a program that uses a device of the
same name, which exists on SGI systems, and now Linux.

The correct way to implement this functionality in FreeBSD is
definitely kqueue, like Kris said.

Actually /dev/imon is really inferior to kqueue in a lot of
ways.

-- Terry