fam

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Sábado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 06:35, Joe Marcus Clarke escribió:
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 19:04 -0800, Murray Stokely wrote:
> > How important is fam to GNOME.  Should we add a commented out entry
> > to inetd.conf?  Any comment on PR: conf/74004?
>
> I'll say it's critical to a user-friendly GNOME installation. 
> Without FAM, you will need to restart gnome-panel each time you
> install new software, the GTK+ file chooser doesn't update
> dynamically nor does Nautilus (or anything related to the file
> system).  I can't imagine actually using a GNOME installation without
> FAM.
>
> I think a commented out entry in /etc/inetd.conf would be good.  I
> think teaching the devel/fam port to create an active entry in
> inetd.conf to be better.
>

If this is desired, an /etc/rc.d/famd would be better. famd can be work 
in daemon mode without the aids of inetd.

And, if we import the new famd from sgi (2.7.0) and the netbsd imon 
(kqueue based), we can get a great improvement.  I've this running at 
work with freebsd4 and pkgsrc.

--
  josemi 
> Joe
>
> > - Murray
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