File alteration monitor fam

It is likely to be the last release before the new 2. Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Source Code. Join Now! Group Type: non-GNU software and documentation. This project is not part of the GNU Project. Latest News. FAM 2. Project Homepage.

Download Area. Project Memberlist 2 members. Tech Support Manager open items: 0 , total: 0 - Browse open items - Submit a new item. For additional information about fam usage, see the fam 1M and fam 3X man pages. Beginning with the IRIX 6. Lines beginning with or!

For a description of these options, see the fam 1M man page. Sometimes, when attempting to start up an application that uses fam , an error message is displayed:. There are several reasons why this message appears. This section describes some of the common ways to troubleshoot the problem. If you see one of the following two messages on your screen, follow the steps in Procedure :. If fam is running, verify that it was started by inetd.

If fam is not running, that does not necessarily indicate a problem. The fam daemon is normally started by inetd when an application needs it, and fam only runs as long as it is being used by one or more client applications. If that line is not present, add it, and make inetd reread the file by running the following killall command:.

Verify that the fam daemon is present and executable by root. If the file is not found, you must reinstall the eoe. Verify that fam is registered with portmapper by using the rpcinfo command:. If the rpcinfo command does not produce any output, then fam is not registered with the portmapper.

If you have performed the previous steps including killall -HUP inetd , it is possible that the portmapper is not running. In the sample output above, the port is To find out which processes are listening on it, run the fuser command:. Use the ps command to determine whether those processes are inetd and fam.

On the other hand, if the fuser output is more like the following, then the portmapper information is confused and the network services probably needs to be restarted. The edited line should be similar to the following:. After editing the inetd. If fam is still running as will be the case if it is still being used by at least one application , restart it so that the debugging flag takes effect:.

Depending on the operating system the Sun 3. If the Sun workstation is running version 3. They are:.