From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12057 invoked by alias); 15 Sep 2015 16:25:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 12045 invoked by uid 89); 15 Sep 2015 16:25:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock03.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock03.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:25:22 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t8FGPKjw009535 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:25:20 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.7] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t8FGPJcn020875 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:25:20 -0400 Subject: Re: Does gam_server have to run? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98C1FC8B66@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <55F8466F.10204@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA98C1FC8B66@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-09/txt/msg00243.txt.bz2 On 9/15/2015 11:48 AM, Doug Lewan wrote: > All, > > On my last cygwin update I noticed that I have /usr/libexec/gam_server.exe running. > I learned this because the install script could not kill it (and neither could I!). > It was using about 1 sec/sec of CPU. > > With a little investigation I learned that > it's part of GNOME's "file alternation monitoring". > I'm willing to believe that I've installed /something/ of GNOME or that uses GNOME, > but I do /not/ want the GNOME ecosystem creeping into my world. > > Can anyone help me understand how to stop it from running? > > Alternatively, can someone help me understand how to find dependencies within CYGWIN? 'cygcheck -f /usr/libexec/gam_server.exe' will tell you that the program is provided by the gamin package. The /usr/bin/cygcheck-dep (from the cygcheck-dep package) can tell you what installed packages require gamin. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple