-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 02:07:04 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:05:36 -0600 > Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fam was started by /etc/init.d/fam on my Sid machine. (I say was > > because it appears my machine is now using avahi, since I did an > > apt-get upgrade the other day.) > > These are unrelated things. Avahi provides "a framework for Multicast > DNS Service Discovery" AKA zeroconf AKA rendezvous AKA bonjour AKA > whatever Apple decides to call it next week. > > Fam is for tracking changes to files and reporting those back to > applications. Gamin is intended to be a better replacement for fam, > whether it lives up to that I don't know, but it's what I have > installed on my system. True. Thanks for the correction, Seeker. I guess I had a momentary brain short-circuit. :-) Jacob -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6KFjkpJ43hY3cTURAmsaAJ9Ra9NWLQRCmOwC1QAaQuDfE088LwCeMyDn A+rF01lXUCjxditOW3Cw6OE= =zxK7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----