Re: supervise not running

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 22:54 +0930, Daryl Tester wrote:
> Larry Weldon wrote:
> 
> >> Run "svscan /service" from the command line as root to see if any
> >> errors are being directly reported.
> 
> > OK. That works but it doesn't show anything which was not already
> > detailed in my first post.
> 
> You didn't report that readproctitle had reported anything.

readproctitle was not in the process list at all.

> 
> > I showed the links and paths as well as the
> > fact that svscanboot & causes everything to work again.
> 
> Not knowing what your path is, I've no idea where "svscanboot" is
> being picked up from, whereas in your inittab it's specified exactly
> as "/command/svscanboot", so you may want to run that instead.
> Likewise for showing the symbolic links but not the final executable.
> 

the path is /command/svscanboot

the command line in svscanboot which is supposed to start it all...
/command/svc -dx /service/* /service/*/log

I thought svscan was supposed to start it...

> Modify svscanboot (warning: these are based on what my svscanboot
> scripts looks like, not yours, so results may vary) - try adding:
> 
> exec >> /tmp/svscanboot.log 2>&1
> set -x
> echo `date` starting
> 
> early in the script, and be sure to comment out the subsequent
> "exec > /dev/null" and "exec 2> /dev/null".  Reboot, if the file got
> created, the svscanboot script ran.  If it contains errors, even better.
> 

Great! I put the results at the bottom of this email...

[snip]

> I'd expect init to record something to wherever init records logs these
> days (possibly "process spawning too rapidly") if it was having problems
> executing the script.
> 

contents of /tmp/svscanboot.log
++ date
+ echo Sat Sep 13 10:03:30 EDT 2008 starting
Sat Sep 13 10:03:30 EDT 2008 starting
+ /command/svc
-dx /service/dnscache /service/qmail-pop3d /service/qmail-send /service/qmail-smtpd /service/tinydns /service/dnscache/log /service/qmail-pop3d/log /service/qmail-send/log /service/qmail-smtpd/log /service/tinydns/log
svc: warning: unable to control /service/dnscache: supervise not running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-pop3d: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/tinydns: supervise not running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/dnscache/log: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-pop3d/log: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send/log: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd/log: supervise not
running
svc: warning: unable to control /service/tinydns/log: supervise not
running
+ env -
PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin svscan /service
+ env -
PATH=/command:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin readproctitle service errors: ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Thanks for the help.

Larry