Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 15:38:31 +0200 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Nagy L?szl? Zsolt <nagylzs@freemail.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Almost ready with diskless setup Message-ID: <20060811133831.GA56300@epia2.farid-hajji.net> In-Reply-To: <44DB7D53.5060902@freemail.hu> References: <44DB32B7.8080602@enternet.hu> <44DB7D53.5060902@freemail.hu>
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On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:39:15PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? Zsolt wrote: > > > > >2. syslogd tells that it cannot open the pid file. (Operation not > >supported) However, it creates /var/log/syslogd.pid. But that file is > >empty. What can be the problem? > After making another diskless distribution, I found out that the > 'Operation not supported' error comes out because of calling flock() on > nfs. For example: > > --------------- > sendmail_submit: /etc/mail/aliases.db not present, generating > cannot flock(/etc/mail/aliases, fd=3, type=6, omode=4002, euid=0): > Operation not supported > -------------- > > The same message (Operation not supported) comes when creating the pid > file /var/log/syslogd.pid. The /var/log filesystem is writeable. Is it > possible that flock() is not implementedon nfs? :-( It is, but you need to enable it: On the NFS server and clients, add to /etc/rc.conf: rpcbind_enable="YES" rpc_lockd_enable="YES" rpc_statd_enable="YES" > Laszlo Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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