On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:59:58 +0200, Steve Fox wrote: > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:07, Antony Suter wrote: >> >> My installation of talk had a bad xinetd config file, causing xinetd to >> segfault. I fixed this, xinetd ran again, thus fam works again. > > So it looks like running Nautilus with fam (and hence xinetd and > portmap) is required? This kind of sucks for people who don't want to be > running with any of these three services installed. Is fam support > required for non-Mandrake Nautilus? I just wish there were another way > for fam to function w/o portmap. I think it's on the TODO list though.
Yes, fam is required by Nautilus (Mandrake version or not). To be precise, with GNOME2, it is required by gnome-vfs.. If you want to work on fam, you are free to join fam mailing list at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/mail.html -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
