On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:31 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > 6. Daniel Veillard is hacking on a per-user daemon to replace > > the FAM system daemon, primarily motivated by SELinux > > (FAM system daemon lets you violate the security boundaries) > > > What is it that fam is supposed to achieve? I know it does file change > notification but I've never noticed a change in system behavior from > when it is off or on. Is Daniel's work on line somewhere? You should definitely notice a change with it off in rawhide. Install a new app, watch the gnome-vfs menu backend not notice the change and you get to kill gnome-panel to refresh your menus. Jeremy