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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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On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 09:22 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> 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.
> >
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

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

>=20
> --
>   josemi=20
> > Joe
> >
> > > - Murray
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>=20
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