On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> wrote: >>> If you don't want to run FAM, uninstall it. I do not understand why >>> people >>> have FAM installed, but are not running it. >> >> Then courier-imap won't start anymore. > > Why won't it start?
Because then the shared library courier-imap links against is missing. > Clearly this is not the case for everyone. I'm sure there are plenty of > instances of Courier-IMAP running just fine on Debian, with a working FAM. > > If disabling the FAM daemon makes the difference, than there is some issue > with some, not all, FAM installations. Generally, when there is an issue > with a component, the correct solution is not to sweep it under the rug but > to find out what's broken, and fix it. FAM uses portmap, as I recall, so > this may also be a portmap issue as well. > > I also note that some distros have switched to Gamin a long time ago. Gamin > does not use a daemon. It uses the kernel inotify interface directly, to > implement the FAM functionality. That sounds better, but doesn't completely solve it. Olaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Courier-imap mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-imap
