Re: Inotify

[Stephen O'Grady <sogrady redmonk com>]

Which kernel, Michael? I'm running gentoo-dev-sources, and would love
for the rml/gentoo devs collaboration to pan out, but in the meantime
would be interested if you got it working. 

sog

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:10, Michael Koby wrote:
> I use Gentoo Linux so I had to patch my kernel.  I got it working though.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 21:12:46 -0400, Robert Love <rml novell com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 20:00 -0500, Michael Koby wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Michael.
> > 
> > > I assume this is due to my possible lack of having inotify installed.
> > > Unfortunatly I'm pretty new to some of this and I don't know exactly
> > > what inotify is and I can't seem to find in my kernel .config file.
> > >
> > > Could someone please be kind enough to educate me as to what exactly
> > > inotify is and how to get it installed properly.  The only info I find
> > > on the thing is a few patches here and there, but nothing really
> > > expalintory as to what it is and how to go about installing it
> > > correctly (not really into screwing up my kernel).
> > 
> > Inotify is a kernel feature that is currently not in the mainline
> > kernel, so you have to apply it as a patch.
> > 
> > We can help you with this.  This is what we train for.
> > 
> > The first question is, do you compile your own kernel or use a
> > prepackaged kernel from your distribution?
> > 
> > If the latter, simply mosey on over to
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/inotify/v2.6/0.13/
> > 
> > and download the patch, apply it, enable CONFIG_INOTIFY, and recompile.
> > Since you mentioned checking your .config, I presume this is not too
> > foreign.  If it is, holler and we can help.
> > 
> > If you use your vendor's kernel, then we can help, but currently only if
> > you use SUSE.  If you use SUSE 9.x or SLES9, kernels are available at
> > 
> > http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/kernel-rml/nld-9-i586/
> > 
> > Simply install that and off you go.
> > 
> > If you use something else, then I do not know of any inotify kernel
> > packages, but with luck someone will build some soon.
> > 
> > Best,
> > 
> >         Robert Love
> > 
> >