[CLUE-Tech] testing famd?

[Dennis J Perkins]

Try "make test"  or  "make check" before running  "make install".

> Greetings.
> 
> On rhat 9.0, I am trying to build the courier-imap RPMs from a source 
tarball.  
> According to most accounts, this is a simple process.  Courier-imap uses 
the     
> file alteration monitor (famd) to track changes to maildirs.  So, during the 
> build, there are sanity checks which require famd to be working.  These 
> checks fail:
> 
> 	ERR: Error: Input/output error
> 	ERR: Check for proper operation and configuration
> 	ERR: of the File Access Monitor daemon (famd).
> 
> Here is my problem - I don't know how to test famd (man fam was not detailed) 
> to ensure that it is not my problem.
> 
> Any ideas?
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