fam

[James Earl]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:58:00 -0800, Murray Stokely
<murray at freebsdmall.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:39:16PM -0500, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > Murray Stokely wrote:
> > >How important is fam to GNOME.  Should we add a commented out entry to
> > >inetd.conf?  Any comment on PR: conf/74004?
> > >
> > >- Murray
> >
> > What I'd like to see more than anything is a set of step-by-step
> > instructions for getting fam up and running. I tried at one point, and
> > couldn't get it to work right. If there were a handbook entry that gave
> > step-by-step instructions, or a more complete pkg-message in the fam
> > port itself, I wouldn't think that an inetd.conf entry is even necessary.
> 
> I haven't tried setting it up, but if someone provides email
> instructions that others can reproduce then I can mark it up for
> inclusion in the Handbook.

I think the pkg-message must be pretty complete.  I setup fam using
those instructions a couple months ago.  I don't remember having any
problems.