> Is there still a maintainer for oss FAM? There hasn't been a release for a
> very long time.
Yes, Michael Wardle (wardle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) is the maintainer, or would be
if I weren't so sluggish about handing stuff over to him. (For example,
his 2.2.19 imon patch isn't on the fam project page yet because I haven't
gotten him write access yet.) For a while now he's been fixing bugs which
people have been reporting over the last year, and as soon as I get out of
his way, I imagine he will be better about keeping the project pages
current & getting out releases than I have been. (It would be tough to do
worse...)
> I'm also unsure about the security issues of having FAM installed. (I
> worry especially about it's handling of groups.) Does anyone know if Irix
> has had any security problems with FAM?
The only one I know of was "the big one," where you could get fam to tell
you the names of all the files on the system, but that was fixed when fam
was ported to Linux. Some of the weirdness with groups may be related to
supporting the "insecure compatibility" option for old Irix clients, some
of it may be related to not having getgrmember on Linux, and some of it
may be just plain weird. It's certainly possible that there are bugs
there.
--Rusty
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