Re: Inotify

[Michael Koby <michael koby gmail com>]

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
> 
> 


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