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Date:      Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:22:42 +0100
From:      Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Cc:        Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com>
Subject:   Re: fam
Message-ID:  <200503190922.43241.freebsd@redesjm.local>
In-Reply-To: <1111210527.41721.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20050319030449.GG4271@freebsdmall.com> <1111210527.41721.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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El S=E1bado, 19 de Marzo de 2005 06:35, Joe Marcus Clarke escribi=F3:
> 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.=20
> 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=20
in daemon mode without the aids of inetd.

And, if we import the new famd from sgi (2.7.0) and the netbsd imon=20
(kqueue based), we can get a great improvement.  I've this running at=20
work with freebsd4 and pkgsrc.

=2D-
  josemi=20
> Joe
>
> > - Murray
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