FAM and portmap

[SunDevil]

Why do i want these to be running in the background?

File Access Monitor? i know when i access my files.

[trommaster]

i think gnome uses FAM to do stuff like automount. KDE might use it too.
When you put in a cd, gnome will automatically mount it and put a link to it on the desktop, super nifty
Other wms might use it too

Alastair

[JimH]

File Access Monitor?

FAM = file alteration monitor

nautilus is one app that uses. I believe konqueror does also. If you want to know exactly what it does check out the FAQ.

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html

I saw a post from a Red Hat developer a while back who mentioned wanting to rewrite FAM to make it more sane. ie. for one, not having it need portmap, but it wasn't high on the priority list.

Jim H