From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 24 22:11:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C4C137B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9676E43E42 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:11:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6P5AXFG000531; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:10:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6P5AXWH000530; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:10:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:10:33 -0400 From: Alan E To: Annelise Anderson Cc: FreeBSD Ports List , KDE FreeBSD List Subject: Re: troubles with the FAM port Message-ID: <20020725051033.GA343@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020718182425.GA41703@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:54:34PM -0700, Annelise Anderson wrote: >On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Alan E wrote: > >> ==8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<== >> ************************************************************************ >> >> 1. In order to run this port, please add the following line to /etc/rpc if >> it is not already there: >> >> ==8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<== >> sgi_fam 391002 >> ==8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<== >> >> 2. If you wish to run fam from inetd (the recommended method), then >> please add the following lines to /etc/inetd.conf if they are not >> already there: >> >> ==8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<== >> # FAM: File Alteration Monitor [devel/fam] >> sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/local/bin/fam fam >> ==8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<== >> >> After modifying /etc/inetd.conf, you must (as root) run: >> >> killall -HUP inetd >> >> 3. If, instead, you wish to run fam as a system daemon, then (as root) >> do the following: >> >> cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d >> cp fam.sh.sample fam.sh >> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fam.sh start >> >> ************************************************************************ >> ==8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<====8<== >> >> Summary: without sufficient and useful information, as well as your >> cooperation in following instructions, I can't really do anything for >> you. >> >I had the same trouble as the original poster with fam, which is >needed by kde2; I've given up on kde3 for now (on -current). We're working on kde3 on -current. Really, we are. There have been some problems with our build system; I've been out of contact with will@ for a few days so I don't know the status right now. >I finally installed the fam package. The startup script says >"Can't determine PREFIX." (I had this problem with one of the That's because you must run it with an absolute path. It's a "feature". Run all those scripts like "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/script start|stop"; many of them are designed to barf if you don't do it like that. >dhcpd scripts as well, but solved it some other way.) The >list of what to do is unclear--I think it means to say that 1 is >necessary and either 2 or 3; actually it's also necessary to >enable (or run) portmap. You are correct. 1 is necessary under all conditions. Then you can choose either 2 or 3. AFA running portmap goes, I'll add a bit to that effect to the message; I'll also try to make it clearer about the choices available to you. Thanks for the constructive criticism; making it better helps everyone. >Annelise Anderson >Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC >Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com >Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ Oh, cool, a celebrity! And a female FreeBSD tech writer at that! I think you're a relatively rare sub-species of BSD geek. 8=) Oh, I removed the "Charlie Root" guy from the Cc: line 'cause his email address bounces. -- AlanE KDE-FreeBSD Team To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message