On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 16:50, Alex Larsson wrote: > On 25 Oct 2001, Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > > On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 16:14, Alex Larsson wrote: > > > On 25 Oct 2001, Ross Burton wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am looking at patching my kernel for imon and install fam for use with > > > > Nautilus. However, I've seen mentions of a set of patches for imon, by > > > > a RedHat (?) developer. Where are these? > > > > > > > > Also, what is the future of imon? I've also heard that SGI have dropped > > > > it, and gnome-vfs will implement something similar at some point. Is > > > > this processing, or is on the wish list? > > > > > > imon is dropped by SGI (i believe), but it is not necessary at all, since > > > Linux (since 2.4) has it's own file notification scheme called DNotify. > > > > > > I've patched fam to use this instead, and that is what we ship in Red Hat > > > 7.2. RPMS availible at: > > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS > > > > The problem is that for Nautilus to rely on FAM, you have to make sure > > it is widely available (across distribution). I've seen in another > > thread that FAM doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (AFAIR: that the > > maintainers is unresponsive). > > > > The solution might be to fork FAM. > > Well. I maintain our (Red Hats) "branch", but it seems there will soon be > a new FAM release, so i don't think forking is necessary yet. This is good news. > And if I were to fork it (I've thought about it), I would make it a > userspace daemon to avoid the xinetd+portmap dependency, and remove some > security issues. That would be great... But without forking it (you say FAM seem to be moving), wouldn't the FAM maintainer accept such a patch ? -- Yoann Vandoorselaere http://www.prelude-ids.org
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