Some applications installers written with Installshield allow you to do
silent installs. This requires that you create a response file to
store all of your default answers. Check this link out, maybe it'll
work for you.
http://documentation.installshield.com/robo/projects/helplib/IHelpSetup_EXECm
Why not use SGI's FAM (File Alteration Monitor)? It works under
Linux...and I think I saw Solaris support somewhere. Under Linux, the
FAM daemon doesn't use inefficient polling of the filesystem instead it
monitors file changes through the kernel. Under Solaris, it'd probably
fall back to polling
