Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 09:00:28 +0100 From: David Landgren <david@landgren.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps: warning: /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory Message-ID: <3FFBBC9C.9080502@landgren.net> In-Reply-To: <3FFACFE7.8080505@landgren.net> References: <3FFACFE7.8080505@landgren.net>
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David Landgren wrote:
> I recently rebooted a server that had been running for many months. I
> haven't touched the kernel or userland programs since it went into
> production.
>
> The server was rebooted with 'shutdown -h now', powered down, and then
> later restarted.
>
> I've since noticed that cron didn't restart, which is odd, but fixable,
> but more importantly, when I run ps, it spits out 'ps: warning:
> /var/run/dev.db: No such file or directory' (although, as far as I can
> tell, the output is perfectly reasonable).
I found out how to fix this, one simple runs dev_mkdb
> I'm wondering if one is a symptom of the other. In any event,
> /var/run/dev.db is most certainly not there.
>
> I guess I could reboot the server tonight, but I'm not sure that that
> will fix it, as I don't understand the cause. I've searched the archives
> a bit, and the best thread I could find dated from 1997, and suggested
> that it could be due to an unclean shutdown, which is definitely not the
> case here.
I wound up rebooting the server, and it looks like as if /etc/rc bombs
out half way through. None of the additional daemons are started: cron,
inetd, sshd, syslogd... The default route is not set up, and nothing in
/usr/local/etc/rc.d is started.
I watched the server boot, and I saw nothing that resembled a shell
error. Is there a way to tee the output of /etc/rc to a file, so that I
could scan it afterwards?
Thanks,
David
--
Commercial OS breeds commerce, whereas free OS breeds freedom,
the only thing more dangerous and confusing than commerce.
-- Michael R. Jinks, redhat-list, circa 1997
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