autoquartz
May 8 2004, 05:47 AM
I have disabled sgi_fam in /etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam to get rid of the above error in LogWatch. Is it ok? What does sgi_fam do anyway? Thanks.
wmshub
May 10 2004, 06:08 PM
It's the file acess monitor. Applications can use it to "watch" for files being used without having to poll.
Not many applications use it, because it's fairly new and (AFAIK) not part of any standard such as Posix. You're probably OK without it, I'm guessing that even the apps that need it will fallback to polling if fam is disabled.