tightening requirements... sorta

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sun Aug 10 22:22:00 CEST 2008


On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:03:11 +0100 Erlend Davidson wrote:

> 
> >
> > Yeah, I thought about that, but -- as other replies in the thread
> > have noted -- gamin seems to be preferred, and at least this would
> > be a step in the right direction.  
> 
> > Of course we can't start famd if they're using
> > FAM, but in my experience answering this question over and over,
> > it's literally *always* been people without support compiled in.  
> Well you usually can't have fam and gamin on the same system

Right, I didn't say you could.

> > I've
> > (personally) never seen anyone complaining of this problem where the
> > solution turned out to be "start famd."  YMMV, of course.
> Well that could help the situation where famd crashes... have Thunar 
> (which uses it) start it up again.

Famd is a system service that needs to be started as root.

	-brian



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