Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 03:25:50 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fam Message-ID: <1111220750.41721.78.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200503190922.43241.freebsd@redesjm.local> References: <20050319030449.GG4271@freebsdmall.com> <1111210527.41721.40.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200503190922.43241.freebsd@redesjm.local>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:22 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote: > 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. Send in the port. If it works better than the current fam port, I see no reason why mbr wouldn't want to commit it. Joe > > -- > josemi > > Joe > > > > > - Murray > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCO+IOb2iPiv4Uz4cRAlF+AKCGN5UN2V09etFw9yhp+eSZv/s56ACbBMt9 g8bw+RV5kJY1CbZLMET8XBs= =B/G3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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