Re: Inotify

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How hard is it to get inotify working on a Gentoo system?

Lukas

Michael Koby wrote:

> I've been noticing today and yesterday that when I start the beagle
> dameon using "beagled --nofork" I get an error about it not being able
> to find inotify and that the FileSystemQueryable throws a
> System.Exception.  And it throws a bunch of errors and then I can't
> search anything using Best.  I went through CVS to see why this might
> be happening and found a few places in the beagled where there is "..
> is now inotify only".
>
> 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).
>
> Thanks.
>
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