Subject: fam should not fail to start if portmapper is not installed Package: fam Version: 2.7.0-8 Severity: important
*** Please type your report below this line *** I don't have portmapper installed and fam does not start in this configuration. As portmapper is a "Recomends", fam should not fail to start if it can't register with it. It should start and not provide the RPC service for monitoring remote files, just that. Also, failing silently is not good! If the daemon fails, it should return a non 0 value _and_ the init script should take that value into account, not retrn 0, blindly! Please fix this. merci:/home/eddy# /etc/init.d/fam start Starting file alteration monitor: FAM. merci:/home/eddy# ps -A | grep fam merci:/home/eddy# tail -n /var/log/daemon.log Oct 8 14:18:39 localhost famd[7275]: can't register with portmapper. I saw this is connected to #289625. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-rc4-merci Locale: LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ro_RO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages fam depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-2 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 Versions of packages fam recommends: pn portmap <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein
