minidlna ibotify feature doesn't work

[vvv104]

Hello,

I have installed minidlna port and configured it. It works well except that it does not update media database. There is an option in conf file to schedule updates:

inotify=yes
notify_interval=900

This means that updates should be performed each 900 seconds.

But it seems that this feature doesn't work because new files are not appeared. I worked around it by stopping service manually, deleting /var/db/minidlna/files.db and starting minidlna again. Each update process takes significant time.

I set

log_level=inotify=debug

but there is no records in the log about some problems with this feature.

Does anybody know how this make to work? Thanks in advance.

~ Vladimir

 

[break19]

inotify is a linux thing.. FreeBSD uses kqueue. minidlna should be changed to use libevent, then it'd be cross-compatible with linux, freebsd, and solaris' kernel-level file monitoring

 

[vvv104]

inotify is a linux thing.. FreeBSD uses kqueue. minidlna should be changed to use libevent, then it'd be cross-compatible with linux, freebsd, and solaris' kernel-level file monitoring

Could you tell how to change it to use libevent? I couldn't find such thing in make config. Thanks.

 

[break19]

The source. Use the source, Luke!

If that's too vague: "Fix the code." If that doesn't make sense, then you likely do not have the skill set necessary to do it, and should not attempt to do so.

 

[vvv104]

This does make sense! I thought it was already adapted for freebsd. Anyway thanks for the answer.