[ale] What is this telling me?

[hne at hopnet.net (Keith Hopkins)]

tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> I installed RH 7.3, configured, and so forth and started finding the 
> following in the log report.
> 
>  ---------------- Connections (secure-log) Begin ------------------- 
> 
> **Unmatched Entries**
> xinetd[940]: START: sgi_fam pid=17773 from=<no address>
> 
> 
>  ----------------- Connections (secure-log) End -------------------- 
> 
> What is going on? Please? 

sig_fam is SGI's File Alteration Monitor.  Are you running XFS?

Is portmap running? (it typically fails without portmap)

Look here http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/faq.html for more info.

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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