Re: FAM not notifying of non-local changes on NFS files

[Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 02:55, Ken Tanzer wrote:
> We're trying to use FAM to monitor files on a directory that is mounted 
> via NFS.
> 
> This works fine when a file is modified via the local machine on which 
> FAM is running.  When the file is changed from the server that is
> exporting NFS, however, FAM does not detect this, and does nothing.

By default, Red Hat ships with the FAM daemon bound to the loopback
interface so that it can only be used by the local machine.

Try removing the "bind = 127.0.0.1" entry in /etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam.

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Michael Wardle <michael.wardle@adacel.com>
Adacel Technologies