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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
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