Le Dimanche 26 Janvier 2003 14:50, Danny Tholen a écrit :
> Silly enough, fam requires portmap, and fam is used by KDE (and nautilus
> too i think) to monitor file-changes. It can also poll the disks if fam is
> not running, but this is worse for performance.
>
> drakxservices should (IMO) auto-enable portmap is fam is enabled.
> (and autodisable fam if there is no portmap)
> Danny
Why should fam be dependant on portmap ? portmap is mostly used for network
services, not for monitoring disk.
Having an open port on a computer, only for one daemon who watch files changes
is not very good.
Emmanuel
