On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:39 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:32:22 +0200 > Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 19:07 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > When I installed Bluefish, I had a bit of a jam with the fam / gamin > > > conflict (Bluefish / GNOME wanted one and Xfce wanted the other). At > > > the time, I didn't really understand what they did, but based on this > > > thread and your comments in particular, I gather that when I leave a > > > file open for a while in Bluefish and meanwhile make a quick edit with > > > vi and then return to Bluefish, the Bluefish notification that the file > > > has been modified by another process is based on info received from > > > gamin. > > > > I think you only need fam to monitor remote files, NFS and such, GNOME > > only depends on libfam (and recommends fam I believe) so it's safe to > > remove. > > > > Local file monitoring is usually done with inotify now. > > Thanks. Makes sense, since I don't have fam installed (gamin instead). If you want to understand, insert thumbe drive, mount it and then delete a file on it. DO NOT EMPTY trash. FAM has the files open waiting for the system to delete them. you will not be able to umount the volume until you do or kill FAM. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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