On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:01, Martin Ebourne <lists(a)ebourne.me.uk> wrote:
I've googled for an explanation of what the problem is with
fam/selinux but
didn't come up with anything. I'd be curious to know what it is. Or even if
there's a new replacement which supercedes it.
The problem is that famd is an application which accepts network connections,
wants read access to every file that any user can access. If you want to
have a secure system you don't want many such programs.
Remote famd operation is only for non-polling notifications over the network.
For most people having polling for file status changes on NFS will probably
be OK.
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