Hi,
I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the
following entry to /etc/inittab
SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service </dev/null 2> dev/console
After saving, I execute the following command:
# kill -HUP 1
This does not start the process I have added. The process that I have added
only starts when I do:
# init u
or
# telinit u
PS - The process will not start even after a reboot. I have to manually do one
of the above commands as root.
My kernel version is : 2.2.19
Distro : Slackware
GCC : gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
Any help appreciated.
--
Subba Rao
[email protected]
http://members.home.net/subba9/
GPG public key ID 27FC9217
Subba Rao <[email protected]>:
> I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the
> following entry to /etc/inittab
>
> SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service </dev/null 2> dev/console
>
> After saving, I execute the following command:
>
> # kill -HUP 1
>
> This does not start the process I have added. The process that I have added
> only starts when I do:
>
> # init u
> or
> # telinit u
>
> PS - The process will not start even after a reboot. I have to manually do one
> of the above commands as root.
>
> My kernel version is : 2.2.19
> Distro : Slackware
> GCC : gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
>
> Any help appreciated.
I'm using Slackware 7.1, so one of the following possible solutions may work:
First
Make sure the daemon is available at boot time - if /usr/local/bin is
where the svscan daemon exists, then /usr/local must be part of the
root file system.
What I do is have a "/host" directory tree on the root file system
for this purpose. Alternatively, I start the daemon when the system
enters multi-user mode (either /etc/rc.d/rc.local, or one of the
already existing scripts related to what the daemon does).
A second possibility (try this first - its easer:
I see that the daemon is to run in modes "2345". There is a possiblity
that you have this entry near the beginning of the inittab. If so, try
putting it at the end. I believe that init runs each line of the
inittab for a given run level in the same order that it appears in the
file. Putting the entry last should allow it to be started AFTER
all file systems are mounted - the entry for multiuser mode is:
# Script to run when going multi user.
rc:2345:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.M
If your daemon entry follows this line then it may work as you
expect.
Remember, any facility that the daemon depends on must be
initialized before the daemon starts - If it uses the network
then the network needs to be loaded (mine needs sockets loaded...)
before the daemon is started.
Note: since the assumption that the daemon is in /usr/local and
that /usr/local is a separate file system is true, then
you will no longer be able to dismount the /usr/local
file system while in multi-user mode (it's busy). This may
only be relevent to how your backups are done.
BTW, SIGHUP may not be the correct signal - from the init manpage:
SIGHUP
Init looks for /etc/initrunlvl and /var/log/initrun-
lvl. If one of these files exist and contain an
ASCII runlevel, init switches to the new runlevel.
This is for backwards compatibility only! . In the
normal case (the files don't exist) init behaves like
telinit q was executed.
The only documented startup is "init u" or "telinit u". To re-read the
inittab file use "init q" or "telinit q". I suspect the manpage is a
little "inaccurate" in stating that SIGHUP is equivalent to "telinit q"
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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: [email protected]
Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:30:16PM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the
> following entry to /etc/inittab
>
> SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service </dev/null 2> dev/console
>
> After saving, I execute the following command:
>
> # kill -HUP 1
>
> This does not start the process I have added. The process that I have added
> only starts when I do:
telinit q tells init to re-read the inittab, as per the telinit man page.
--
Russell King ([email protected]) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
On 0, Jesse Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Subba Rao <[email protected]>:
> > I am trying to add a process which is to be managed by init. I have added the
> > following entry to /etc/inittab
> >
> > SV:2345:respawn:env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service </dev/null 2> dev/console
> >
> > After saving, I execute the following command:
> >
> > # kill -HUP 1
> >
> > This does not start the process I have added. The process that I have added
> > only starts when I do:
> >
> > # init u
> > or
> > # telinit u
> >
> > PS - The process will not start even after a reboot. I have to manually do one
> > of the above commands as root.
> >
> > My kernel version is : 2.2.19
> > Distro : Slackware
> > GCC : gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
>
> I'm using Slackware 7.1, so one of the following possible solutions may work:
>
Forgot to mention that I am using Slackware 7.1 too
> A second possibility (try this first - its easer:
> I see that the daemon is to run in modes "2345". There is a possiblity
> that you have this entry near the beginning of the inittab. If so, try
> putting it at the end. I believe that init runs each line of the
> inittab for a given run level in the same order that it appears in the
> file. Putting the entry last should allow it to be started AFTER
> all file systems are mounted - the entry for multiuser mode is:
>
> # Script to run when going multi user.
> rc:2345:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc.M
>
> <SNIP>
>
Thank you for replying!
I have tried those methods and they did not work. What I did as recommended
by someone, is that I added "strace" to the process in /etc/inittab
SV:2345:respawn:strace env - PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin svscan /service </dev/null 2>/backup/strace.out
Instead of sending the strace messages to the console, I saved them to a file.
Part of the log is at the end of this note. Most of these messages seem to be
from the memory module.
If anyone could look at these messages and let me know how to fix it, I would
appreciate it.
Thank you in advance for any help!
--
Subba Rao
[email protected]
http://members.home.net/subba9/
GPG public key ID 27FC9217
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execve("/usr/bin/env", ["env", "-", "PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin", "svscan", "/service"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x804a3c0
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22195, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 22195, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1013224, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\250\206"..., 4096) = 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 954492, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001a000
mprotect(0x400fc000, 28796, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x400fc000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xe1000) = 0x400fc000
old_mmap(0x40100000, 12412, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40100000
close(3) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40104000
mprotect(0x4001a000, 925696, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x4001a000, 925696, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 22195) = 0
personality(PER_LINUX) = 0
getpid() = 880
brk(0) = 0x804a3c0
brk(0x804a3f8) = 0x804a3f8
brk(0x804b000) = 0x804b000
execve("/usr/local/bin/svscan", ["svscan", "/service"], [/* 1 var */]) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8053d20
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=22195, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 22195, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40014000
close(3) = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1013224, ...}) = 0
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\250\206"..., 4096) = 4096
old_mmap(NULL, 954492, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001a000
mprotect(0x400fc000, 28796, PROT_NONE) = 0
old_mmap(0x400fc000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xe1000) = 0x400fc000
old_mmap(0x40100000, 12412, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40100000
close(3) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40104000
mprotect(0x4001a000, 925696, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x4001a000, 925696, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
munmap(0x40014000, 22195) = 0
personality(PER_LINUX) = 0
getpid() = 880
chdir("/service") = 0
wait4(-1, 0xbffffea8, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
brk(0) = 0x8053d20
brk(0x8054d68) = 0x8054d68
brk(0x8055000) = 0x8055000
getdents(3, /* 2 entries */, 3933) = 28
getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 3933) = 0
close(3) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({5, 0}, {5, 0}) = 0
wait4(-1, 0xbffffea8, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getdents(3, /* 2 entries */, 3933) = 28
getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 3933) = 0
close(3) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({5, 0}, {5, 0}) = 0
wait4(-1, 0xbffffea8, WNOHANG, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes)
open(".", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
getdents(3, /* 2 entries */, 3933) = 28
getdents(3, /* 0 entries */, 3933) = 0
close(3) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
nanosleep({5, 0}, {5, 0}) = 0