Peter Palfrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 01 Mar 2007, Jari Aalto wrote: > >> A possible cause: There is no pid file for the process. > > The question is: why is there no pid file. Please show me the outputs > of: > ls -ld /var/run/mixmaster > ls -l /var/run/mixmaster > df -m /var/run > mount | grep var/run
This may something to do with start-top-daemon $ /etc/etc/init.d/mixmaster start Starting Mixmaster Daemon: mixmaster... Mixmaster 3.0b2 Detaching. done. $ ls -la /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pid ls: /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pid: No such file or directory $ ls -ld /var/run/mixmaster drwxrwsr-x 2 root mixmaster 4096 2006-09-28 21:06 /var/run/mixmaster ls -l /var/run/mixmaster $ mount | grep var/run <empty> $ df -m /var/run /var/run /dev/mapper/vg0-var 30249 18322 10391 64% /var Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on [mount skipped for privacy reasons] $ touch /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pidaster.pid $ ls -la /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pidaster.pid -rw-r--r-- 1 root mixmaster 0 2007-03-01 16:56 /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pid $ rm /var/run/mixmaster/mixmaster.pidaster.pid Jari -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

