On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:16:37PM -0700 or thereabouts, Brent Wiese wrote: > Sorry, I missed this question and have been away from the list for a bit. > Hopefully you figured this out by now, but just in case, I've answered > below.
So was I :(.
> > All i got to do now, it seems, is start portmap and fam on
> > system boot. I know portmap_enable="YES" in rc.conf does
> > the trick, but what about starting fam?
>
> Look in /usr/local/etc/rc.d
>
> There will likely be several startup scripts in there for other services.
> Use one as a skeleton to start up fam. Likely, if you installed fam from
> ports, there will already be a startup script in that directory, it'll just
> need to be renamed. Many ports will put the scripts there with a "-sample"
> extension. Check to make sure that file looks in the right places for your
> daemon and if so, rename it to remove the -sample and it'll start up on
> boot.
There is no such script in ../etc/rc.d. All you have to do is to start
portmap (in rc.conf), and then edit your /etc/inetd.conf and add there:
sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/local/bin/fam fam
and then killall -HUP inetd.
This one should do the trick.
Cheers,
Martin
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