# Gamin the File Alteration Monitor

## Gamin project page

Main Menu

- Home
- Overview
- Using gamin
- Configuration
- News
- Downloads
- Python bindings
- Developers informations
- Contacts
- FAQ
- Debugging Gamin
- Security
- Internals
- Differences from FAM
- ChangeLog

Related links

- Mail archive
- FAM project
- sources
- GNOME Bugzilla
- Red Hat Bugzilla

Gamin is a file and directory monitoring system defined to be a subset of the FAM (File Alteration Monitor) system. This is a service provided by a library which allows to detect when a file or a directory has been modified. Daniel Veillard