Re: fam - what is it?

[Elwood <cleverer767-tux@yahoo.co.uk>]

> 
> Okay, clear enough.  But why does it go mad and grab all the processor 
> time occasionally?  Can that be a result of pilot error, or is it 
> simply a bug?  If the latter, I can restart it, now I know who is 
> misbehaving.  If the former, I could reform my ways if I knew what I 
> did wrong.
> 
> -- 
> richard
> 
>

 I've had the experience of having it working because my firewall was off and
from many other wan computers it was opened on the port 1025. I blocked that
port of course but still wondering why we can be hacked or scaned using fam on
port 1025.