On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:39 -0500, Vi Arguelles wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 05:46, Saverio Trioni wrote: > > > > Hi. I have the same problem. I don't dare to kill famd but it runs as > > my user. I think it should run as root... Saverio, if it ran as root for managing your stuff... hmm that would be giving too much privilege. If it runs as your user (typically only touching your stuff) then it should not be able to be hijacked, even if so it would only be your stuff. Running as root, the initial daemon does, but drop privilege when spawned for a user. > Mmm, I did it once. I didn't kill it kill it. I just restarted the daemon and > all was well. I had no problems, but YMMV. If you're not on a > mission-critical system, you might as well try it. Vi, even then it might just not be noticed. I am thinking that you are not clear as to what FAMD just is. ------------------- Description: File Alteration Monitor FAM monitors files and directories, notifying interested applications of changes. This package provides a server that can monitor a given list of files and notify applications through a socket. If the kernel supports dnotify (kernels >= 2.4.x) FAM is notified directly by the kernel. Otherwise it has to poll the files' status. FAM can also provide a RPC service for monitoring remote files (such as on a mounted NFS filesystem). -------------------- So you see, it is a monitoring device, so things like multiple IMAP client can access the same mailbox at once and all will show it. It is just a matter of not stepping on toes, is what FAMD does. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, Better, Faster: Linux Use Debian GNU/Linux, its a bazaar thing.
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