Can anyone tell me which package famd is in? On my slack-current machine it is installed at /usr/sbin/famd. I checked the slack package browser at http://slackware.it/en/pb/ but it returns zero hits when I search for files including the keyword famd*. I am pretty certain that it wasn't installed with some application I compiled, although I can't rule that out completely.

The reason I am asking is that yesterday lpc-cups and famd were running and taking up about 90% of the cpu with a nice value of 0. So it slowed my system down considerably. I killed both processes (lpc-cups spawned a new instance of famd when I killed the first one) and today I noticed that I can't print or even start the cups scheduler. Don't know if the two events are connected, but it does look suspicious. I thought that famd might have been among the recent updates done to binutils or coreutils, and I thought to use the package browser to find out. Is there another way to figure out which package famd is in or confirm that it was not installed in a normal slack package?

in a terminal, try

if you've never set up slocate, you'll have to do that by running (as root) then try 'slocate famd' again and if it is there...slocate will find it and let you know...

on my current box, i have no FAM or famd....

from what i can tell, fam is a file alteration monitor. is this something you installed?

I posed the question badly. famd is at /usr/sbin/famd. I am wondering what slack package it is in. If you don't have it on your system, it is possible that I installed it with something. I am updating my slocate database right now. A `locate famd` should tell me if it is in one of the source directories I have here under /pub/src.

Would you do me a favor? In a console window start top. In another console window enter the command lpq. Does lpq call famd?

What I am trying to figure out is, if famd is something I installed myself and it's not from an original slack package, why would my stock install of cups (lpr, lpq, etc.) call famd? It wouldn't, if it weren't part of a standard install, would it?

Okay, `locate famd` gives me this:

/usr/man/man5/famd.conf.5.gz
/usr/man/man8/famd.8.gz
/usr/sbin/famd

Since I have very seldom deleted any sources after compiling and installing, and since /pub/src/ is in slocate's/locate's search path, it strengthens my suspicion that it was not something I installed.

BTW, by the time I killed lpq (and famd) it had been running for over five minutes without any output.

if you want to check in what package a file came ,use :

grep <filename> /var/log/packages/*

also, for a symlink, use /var/log/scripts

egag

Since famd is a daemon, do you have it in /etc/rc.d?
If so, how about changing the permission (-x) and see if that helps. I don't have it on my system. Are you using KDE?
I am using xfce.

Okay, `grep famd /var/log/packages/*` got it. It was apparently installed as part of the Dropline Gnome stuff I installed about a year and a half ago and then "uninstalled". (The full uninstall of DL is one of the things I have been saving for "later." DL's uninstall program was at least at that time less than thorough.)

I'm going to uninstall it and see if that helps.

famd is a daemon, but it is not started by any of the scripts I have in /etc/rc.d.

I am running fluxbox as my windowmanager.