[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>We took down one of our servers and replaced the hard drive with
>something much larger. Another guy was working on it, so I don't
>exactly know right now what procedure was used to do this. But...
>When he brought the server back up, we noticed (understatement) that
>a supervise directory was created under almost every directory (but
>not *all* of them). What could have caused this?
Looks like a bug in the LWQ "qmail" script--or whatever startup script
you're using. The LWQ script does:
cd /var/qmail/supervise
env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
echo "."
If /var/qmail/supervise doesn't exist, the cd fails, and svscan will
run from /, and it assumes that each subdirectory is a service, and
runs supervise on it.
The script should check to make sure the cd succeeded, e.g.:
if cd /var/qmail/supervise; then
env - PATH="$PATH" svscan &
echo $! > /var/run/svscan.pid
fi
echo "."
Sorry about that: that's a basic shell programming error.
-Dave
