Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 09/14/05 18:34 CST: > gamin does not not need the daemon to be started. Whenever the > application requires file monitoring, the server/daemon will be > started by the gamin library.
Thanks for the info, Tushar. I also browsed over the developer's information. Seems cool to me. The only thing I can't find out about is how is uses dnotify instead of polling. However, the output from configure --help makes me believe it will try to use a kernel method (dnotify or inotify) before polling the fs. I'm going to shut down KDE, de-install FAM and install gamin. Looks to me as though --prefix=/usr and --libexecdir=/usr/sbin is all that is necessary (of course, --enable-docs and --enable-gtk-doc as well). Then I'll restart KDE again and browse my filesystem with Konq. If I can create a file, and it instantly shows up in the file browser, we're in business. Best as I can tell from what you've said and what I read in the docs, is the gam-server daemon should auto start and be owned by the unprivileged user running KDE. Then on to testing with GNOME. I'll report back when I'm finished testing. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 19:01:01 up 165 days, 18:34, 3 users, load average: 0.60, 0.18, 0.11 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
