Re: Wackamole on FreeBSD 5.1 will not start

Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 12:19:53 PM, Cauthorn, Matt (MAN-Corporate) wrote:

CMMC> We're having some problems with Wackamole on FreeBSD 5.1...the setup is very
CMMC> simple (nearly default, in fact):

CMMC> Basic spread config: 
CMMC> Spread_Segment  10.0.0.255:4803 {

CMMC>         qmail1b 10.0.0.1
CMMC>         qmail2b 10.0.0.2
CMMC> }

CMMC> -- Spread is up and running. Works great.

CMMC> Wackamole.conf:

CMMC> Spread = 4803
CMMC> SpreadRetryInterval = 5s
CMMC> Group = wack1
CMMC> # Named socket for online control
CMMC> Control = /var/run/wack.it
CMMC> Prefer None
CMMC> VirtualInterfaces {

CMMC>         { bge1:10.0.0.10/32 }
CMMC> }
CMMC> Arp-Cache = 90s

CMMC> Notify {

CMMC>         #bge1:10.0.0.1/32
CMMC>         arp-cache
CMMC> }
CMMC> balance {

CMMC>         AcquisitionsPerRound = all
CMMC>         interval = 4s
CMMC> }
CMMC> # How long it takes us to mature
CMMC> mature = 5s

CMMC> The symptoms are:

CMMC> 1) Start spread. Comes right up.
CMMC> 2) Start Wackamole...get the boiler plate message, with the credits, etc.,
CMMC> but no daemon. We've got pid files and the socket setup in /var/run/,
CMMC> however the process id doesn't exist at all. It doesn't give us any errors
CMMC> either. Silent.

CMMC> Unfortunately, ktrace doesn't seem to give us too much more than this. The
CMMC> last few lines of a ktrace.out shows this:

CMMC>  60751 wackamole RET   write 81/0x51
CMMC>  60751 wackamole CALL  fork
CMMC>  60751 wackamole RET   fork 60752/0xed50
CMMC>  60751 wackamole CALL  exit(0x1)

CMMC> ....which may or may not be meaningful - I just don't know. No other obvious
CMMC> errors were noticed in the trace.

CMMC>  We mounted /proc, as a hunch, but that doesn't seem to work either. Our
CMMC> FreeBSD 4.8 machine works well wackamole-wise. Any ideas would be
CMMC> appreciated.

CMMC> Regards,
CMMC> Matt


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Hi Matt,
   If you want to see wackamole printing to the screen, run it with -d
i.e. in debug mode. Wackamole is supposed to run as a daemon, so it
forks of a daemon process and quits.


  Ashima                           mailto:[email protected]
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