From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 3 0:31:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62DF51560F for ; Mon, 3 May 1999 00:30:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA04188; Mon, 3 May 1999 17:00:54 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id RAA19359; Mon, 3 May 1999 17:00:54 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 17:00:54 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Don Lewis Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getting vinum working in -stable Message-ID: <19990503170054.Z10134@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199905030709.AAA00499@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199905030709.AAA00499@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com>; from Don Lewis on Mon, May 03, 1999 at 12:09:05AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 3 May 1999 at 0:09:05 -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > > I just upgraded one of our servers to a 4/30/1999 version of 3.1-stable > in order to use vinum and ran into a minor problem. > > It appears that the preferred way to start vinum at boot time is to > "vinum start", but this is now how /etc/rc works. If the vinum_drives > variable is set in /etc/rc.conf, then /etc/rc executes > "vinum read $vinum_drives". > > The problem is that no matter what I set vinum_drives to, vinum wouldn't > initialize correctly. > > # vinum read /dev/da2e /dev/da2f /dev/da3e /dev/da3f > ** no drives found: No such file or directory > > If I execute "vinum start", everything works just fine. > > May 1 08:27:51 news /kernel: vinum: loaded > May 1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: reading configuration from /dev/da3f > May 1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da3e > May 1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2e > May 1 08:27:52 news /kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/da2f > > I ended up tweaking /etc/rc to just execute "vinum start". Thanks for reminding me. I've been meaning to commit changes to /etc/rc for some time now. I'll do it immediately. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message