[18272] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.4.11: File Alteration Monitor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Thu Sep 14 17:58:42 2000
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:58:38 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200009142158.RAA199934@aupair.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: Richard F Rajter <rick_14@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18257] in Athena Bugs"
This problem was caused by a bug in the IRIX portmap program, which
caused the program to die on m4-035-7 and a number of our other SGI
machines. portmap is a service which provides a mapping of program
numbers to port numbers for RPC-based applications, such as File
Alteration Monitor; those applications do not run properly when
portmap is not running.
[m4-035-7 and other affected machines have been rebooted, and so
should now be functioning properly.]
We are working with SGI on getting a patch for the bug, which we
expect we will be able to deploy soon.
Thank you for reporting this.
Bob
