tech-pkg: Is fam really needed to be listening? (Package fam-2.6.10 installed)

Subject: Is fam really needed to be listening? (Package fam-2.6.10 installed)
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/16/2004 15:57:42

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 root@rainier.reedmedia.net wrote:

> The fam-2.6.10 package was installed on rainier.reedmedia.net at Tue Mar 16 15:40:12 PST 2004
>
> Please note the following:
>
> ===========================================================================
> $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1 2004/02/09 18:14:45 jmmv Exp $
>
> FAM uses RPC and is usually started by the inetd(8) superserver.  You need
> to enable it manually, by issuing the following steps:

Does fam really need to be enabled?

Fam is used a dependency for a lot of packages, but I never have enabled
it for any systems.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/