On Saturday 13 October 2007 14:37:30 mr. phreak wrote: > > Message: 16 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:06:26 +0200 From: Mel > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: rpc_lockd and syslogd > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: > > text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Saturday 13 October 2007 00:41:31 > > > > mr. phreak wrote: > > > > I have a chicken-egg problem. On my diskless setup the syslogd gives > > > > me this error during boot: > > > > > > > > syslogd: cannot open pid file: operation not supported > > > > > > > > And I tracked the issue to flock() and enabled rpc_lockd. Still it > > > > gives me the same error - because rpc_lockd > > > > starts AFTER syslogd does. I've tried fiddling around with REQUIRES > > > > and PROVIDES in the rc.d files but I cannot make it work... It gives > > > > me the error anyway. (or other errors due to rc.d-hacking)... is > > > > there any way to solve this? I'd appreciate some help! > > > > > > > > when running syslogd when logged in it doesn't give me the error so I > > > > guess rpc_lockd *really* is the sollution. > > > > Or the solution is specifying a pid file on a memory disk? I can't think > > of any issues with /var/run being /dev/md*, but there might some. In any > > case, syslogd_flags="-s -P /tmp/syslogd.pid" should work as well. The > > issue I see with that is that /etc/rc.d/syslogd doesn't expose it's > > pidfile for outside configuration. > -- Mel Since I don't have memorydisks, only nfs-mounts (/tmp and /var) > the problem still remains. It's really a chicken-egg problem and I can't > find any new point of view to tackle the issue. The best would be if > someone successfully have altered the rc.d-scrips for a correct rcorder > and would like to share it - i.e rpc_lockd BEFORE syslogd. J
You can't spare 4MB of memory for a memory disk? On my system /var/run isn't even 100k so you can probably do with 256KB one to be on the safe side. View mount_mfs(8) for more info. If you can't, I don't think poking around with rcorder(8) is a good thing. But you can perhaps set syslogd_enable to "NO" and start it from an @reboot crontab. This would cause some boot logging to be lost, but rpc_lockd would start before syslog. Or you can send-pr(1) and request support for rpc_lockd being started before syslogd. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
