> I'm using an INDY133, running IRIX5.3 and when I try to use the Graphic
> part of SO it said to me "can't connect with /usr/ect/fam" and I can't see
> any window.
> For Example, when I try to opne remote or home directory from the toolchest
> IRIX give me that message.
5.3, wow!!
There have been some significant changes to fam since 5.3... (That
might even have been before kbob rewrote it, I don't know.)
Is the problem that fam is running & you can't connect to it, or that
it isn't running? ("ps -ef | grep fam" to begin with)
I don't remember whether any of this applies to 5.3, but here are some
things you might try if the problem is that fam isn't running:
- is fam in /etc/inetd.conf?
- is the sgi_fam service in /etc/services?
- when you run "/etc/init.d/network start" (mumble mumble, that might
not be right, I don't even have any IRIX boxes since those punks
laid me off) does anything interesting happen? (you want the
portmapper and inetd to be running)
It's possible that fam wasn't started by inetd in 5.3. You might try
running /usr/etc/fam by hand (as root) and see what happens. (Check
fam's man page to see if it had any debugging options then.)
Also, one thing to keep in mind if you're running the fam from 5.3 on
a system that's on a network, that's probably one of the versions of
fam which had a security hole which people on remote machines can use
to learn the names of all the files on your system. If that's a
concern to you, there are ways to fix that; one which might work for
you would be to run the open-source fam. Another might be tcpwrapper.
--Rusty
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