Smart Media Player Network Access in Fedora 20

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 14:28 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> >> I agree they're supposed to watch, but
> >> minidlnad won't unless you enable inotify and event then only on
> >> filesystems that support inotify.
> 
> > I don't recall having to enable inotify (i.e. I think it was the
> > default), but I may be mistaken.
> Well, I do. I recall having to do so on my minidlna server.

I checked and the /etc/minidlna.conf from the rpm already has inotify
enabled. This is for minidlna 1.1.3 on F20.

> I don't recall all details, but I had to enable inotify in
> minidlna.conf 
> and to increase
> fs.inotify.max_user_watches in /etc/sysctl.conf
> 
> IIRC, without setting both, minidlna bombed out with some error due
> to 
> the number of files it had to serve.

I haven't hit that issue but maybe I just don't have that many files.

poc