JOHNSTON@NRCMTC.NRC.CA (Dan Johnston) (05/17/91)
Help!
Today a non-privlidged user of one of our Personal Iris
workstations had his Workspace window disappear. When
he tried to re-start it from the system toolchest, he
get a message on the console;
Can't connect with File Access Monitor (fam)
None of the accounts on that station can use the
workspace tool, not even root. Time to look around!
Sure enough... the fam process is not running anymore on
that machine. The line to start it does exist in
/usr/etc/initd.conf. We did a diff between this fam file
and one on another (working) system using nfs. We tried
to start the process again, but it stays alive only until
the first attempt to start WorkSpace. There are no
fam-related messages in SYSLOG. Disk is not full.
Where do I start? Is there another error log file I should
be looking at? Is there a way to make fam be more verbose?
Should I be looking at someone's user.ps file for problems?
I'm looking for a direction. Thanks for any help you can give.
PI 4D/20, 16 Meg. Memory, 200 Meg Disk
Irix 3.3.1, nfs right-to-copy, software dev. right-to-copy
Daniel (Dan) F. Johnston JOHNSTON@NRCMTC.NRC.CA
National Research Council of Canada Tel: (613) 993-6627
Montreal Road Campus, Bldg. M-3 Fax: (613) 998-2771
Ottawa, Ont. CANADA K1A 0R6
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