On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:59:18AM -0400, golfer wrote: > My question is why do I need fam? > > Should I remove it altogether or just delete the rc?.d links? I'd try running with it disabled, to see if your desktop still works as well as you'd like it to. Stop it (/etc/init.d/fam stop); log out and in again to re-start the gnome bits (if you use gnome that is). If all seems ok, you could try preventing it from starting up. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/