Another question is there a way i can start fam in user not as root?? I can
add fam& to my .xsession file and login as root and efm will run fine nbut
when i login as user it doesnt work because i need to be root to start fam.
???
thx
Nick Hudson
Rusty Ballinger wrote:
> > I did the killall -HUP , killall -USR1 and USR2 then i ran
> > "/usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p | grep fam" again to see what it gave me after
> > killall that i ran and all said the same thing.
> >
> > [root@Blackhawk nickh]# /usr/sbin/rpcinfo -p | grep fam
> > 391002 2 tcp 880 sgi_fam
>
> Interesting... the portmapper is saying someone (xinetd? fam?) said they're
> listening for fam clients on port 880. You can find out which process this
> is by going "/sbin/fuser 880/tcp" (let me know if that doesn't work), and
> then "ps -ef | grep [that-process-id]" to find out more information about
> the process.
>
> If xinetd is listening on port 880, that's good. (Although if you tried to
> uninstall fam, and it failed during the post-uninstall-script, the actual
> files may no longer be there? "ls -l /usr/local/bin/fam" still shows the
> fam daemon?)
>
> If fuser gave an error message like "880/tcp: fuser: No such file or
> directory", that's bad; it means the process which registered with the
> portmapper is no longer running.
>
> > and i tried uninstalling fam from the bad install im getting and it wont
> > uninstall the rpm it gives me this::
> >
> > [root@Blackhawk rpm]# rpm -e fam-2.6.4-1
> > Removing fam from rpc...
> > Original file saved as /etc/rpc.O2
> > Removing fam from inetd.conf...
> > Original file saved as /etc/inetd.conf.O1
> > Restarting inetd...
> > inetd: no process killed
> > execution of fam-2.6.4-1 script failed, exit status 1
>
> Yeah, the fam package has an uninstall script which tries to remove fam
> from inetd.conf (and tell inetd about it) when fam is uninstalled, and it
> looks like that's what's failing here. Try "rpm -e --noscripts fam" to
> uninstall fam without running the script. "Are you sure you want to do
> that though?!"
>
> --Rusty
>
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