On Monday 19 May 2003 09:50, Joel Baxter wrote:
> Joel Baxter wrote:
> > I'm trying to get fam working on a RedHat 7.1 box (x86). In the
> > messages log I'm seeing this:
> >
> > fam[10247]: failed to accept new client: Invalid argument
>
> Well... fixed. I updated my xinetd version, and also tried the RedHat
> 7.2 binary RPM for fam 2.6.4 rather than compiling it myself. The
> Courier IMAP post-compile tests now run successfully.
>
> Not sure which of the two changes was key, but don't really care at the
> moment. :-)
If my memory serves me correctly, there was an issue with xinetd handling RPC
version 1 connections for FAM. I think Alex Larsson (the Red Hat FAM
maintainer) made a change to the FAM service definition in
/etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam to make it only use RPC version 2. It could also be
that upgrading to a later version of xinetd fixed the problem in xinetd. You
might like to look at the respective changelogs for more details
(example: rpm --query --changelog fam).
> If someone knows specifically why I was getting that error message, I'd
> still be interested in hearing it, but it's no longer a blocker. Also,
> if there's some nasty known problem with 2.6.4, please tell.
Users were able to monitor files that belonged to the group the FAM daemon was
running as (group nobody by default on Red Hat Linux). It's not a huge
issue, but one you should be aware of nonetheless. There were also issues
when monitoring several thousand files that have only recently been fixed
with a new version of glibc. See the FAM changelog for more details
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ChangeLog.
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Michael Wardle
Adacel Technologies
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