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Date:      Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:39:36 +0100
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gamin vs. fam
Message-ID:  <43ED4058.7020003@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060210184312.GC1109@galgenberg.net>
References:  <43EA8CB5.4030806@gmx.de> <20060210184312.GC1109@galgenberg.net>

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Finally this is an answer. Still seeing how many people have problems,
I'll stay with fam for the time being.

Also I just recognized that I never used fam in my life. Today I tested
x11-fm/pcmanfm and it complained about gamin/fam not running. The author
told me that other programs simply use kernel functions to monitor the
system when fam is not present.

The fam manpage states that it has to be run as root.

So well, for all those who want to stay with fam for now and actually
use it. I have an sh skript attached that can be put into
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and activated by adding fam_enable=3D"YES" to your
/etc/rc.conf .

Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> The last fam release is more than two years old, and the port is still
> at 2.6.9 (which is rapdily getting three years old!). Besides, fam is
> buggy w.r.t to NFS mounts.
>=20
> I don't know about gamin, but it seems awfully linux-centric and
> therefore rather unstable on FreeBSD. We would need to sneak in a *BSD
> developer with kqueue-fu into the gamin team ...
>=20
> Ulrich Spoerlein


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