From chb00-ceb@pima.hostsharing.net Wed Jan 11 15:49:15 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list fam); Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:49:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pima.hostsharing.net (pima.hostsharing.net [212.42.230.40]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k0BNnEm2019615 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:49:14 -0800 Received: by pima.hostsharing.net (Postfix, from userid 69454) id 9EE5BB5B06; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:48:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:47:43 +0100 From: "Christian E. Boehme" To: fam@oss.sgi.com Subject: fam & imon on Linux Message-ID: <20060111224743.GA1308@airborne.cb8.org> Reply-To: hacks@cb8.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="17pEHd4RhPHOinZp" Content-Disposition: inline X-PGP-Key: http://www.cb8.org/pgpkeys/ceb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-archive-position: 725 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: fam-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: fam-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: ceb@cb8.org Precedence: bulk X-list: fam Content-Length: 1527 Lines: 44 --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hello, I just happened to upgrade from a 2.4.x kernel to 2.6.12 when it appeared that the imon/fam combo of IMD fame is apparently not to be anymore on Linux. Since I usually try to keep my system from being buried with archaic solutions (such as dnotify) I wondered what had happened to imon in particular. Fam is, as of now (Jan 11 23:16:13 CET 2006), not even accessible from http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/download.html (HTTP access permission problem, CVS access works, however) while imon is only available as a patch to a SUSE Linux 2.4.17 kernel. While I certainly have no objection to patches, I do regard SUSE-specific kernels and thereto associated patches definitely to be wrong(tm). Where there problems in patching plain Linux kernels from www.kernel.org ? And if so, why aren't those few imon source files made available instead to have others work on them to produce patches for inclusion into the kernel (if so desired) ? The concept of imon is worth preserving the idea and it'd be a shame if imon had to die silently ... Cheers, Christian Boehme --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDxYsPIhf7zOwaYAMRAuI0AJ4sE8xc74980771ni/F8dLsdRblcgCgpkLJ For+oJDlnpfYYaYcJo1w4GI= =vGrd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--