Nathanael Nerode said on Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 12:12:31PM -0500: > Steve Greenland wrote: > >Why is fam using portmap? Ah, I see, so that it can monitor remote files > >and directories. Therefore, it only needs portmap if NFS is configured, > >and therefore portmap will already be running/configured. > > > >Thus, instead of fscking around with portmap, fix fam so that it only > >uses portmap if it's available. > > Quite right; that's obviously the correct fix. > > Seems to me this is an important bug in fam, and I hope fam will be > fixed quickly. From looking at the libfam source, programs that need to talk to fam use RPC on localhost; ie, it requires portmap no matter what. M
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