sgi-fam is a security-related daemon that can monitor system file integrity and network access attempts.
This is the basics of what I can find about this xinetd service. I'm running CentOS 3.4 and also find sgi_fam to be annoying in FC3 as well. In the end, what occurs is that I cannot umount a SMB share b/c sgi_fam won't let it go. I forgot to take a note, but last time this happened I did something like fuser kill with a couple options... iirc. Anyway, the main point of my query is this: is sgi_fam necessary for anything?? If not, I'd like to disable it completely as it keeps getting in my way. In my attemps to do so, I seem to be failing to disable it. I edited /etc/xinetd.d/sgi_fam and the top line is: #default: on so I figured I should add this line under that: default: off #since this line isn't commented it should work right? I did service xinetd restart and reload and neither caused sgi_fam to turn off. I also happened to have a new kernel to boot to, so I rebooted and sgi_fam is still on! thanks, David McD -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
