The famd issue persisted so I gave up on xinetd altogether, and started
running famd with an init script, with the ulimit setting.
Does anyone know if there is a way to stop famd from changing its user
(is this part of how it implements security on the monitoring?). I've
been "slaying" users on logout via the TakeConsole script, but had to
work in a big kludge so famd did not get killed as well.
For anyone interested, here is my famd init script for Mandrake:
#!/bin/bash
#
# famd Starts famd
#
#
# chkconfig: 2345 30 99
# description: This is FAM version 2.7.0.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
case "$1" in
start)
gprintf "Starting famd"
ulimit -n 2048
daemon /usr/sbin/famd -T 0
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/fam
;;
stop)
killall famd
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/fam
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|}"
exit 1
;;
esac
Marc DeTrano wrote:
Yep, I was not out of the woods yet...
This is a tough issue to reliably test. It looks like in addition to
the soft and hard limits you can set in the limits.conf, there is also
a kernel-limit to cap it all off. root can override that limit, so I
also added:
ulimit -n 2048
in the start section of /etc/init.d/xinetd (and perhaps a similar
modification would be done to famd's init script if not using xinetd).
This *seems* to be working better now. But only time (and end users)
will tell.
Marc
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