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Re: [nv-l] Netveiw 7.1.2 on SuSE 8 problems

To: dejan.mijailovic@inquent.com, NetView mailing list <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Netveiw 7.1.2 on SuSE 8 problems
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:37:24 +0000
Hi Dejan,
Again, I saw something very similar to this on RedHat.  We didn't exactly meet
the Op Sys pre-reqs (slightly newer version of RedHat and we hadn't installed
the specified version of  pdksh).  We reinstalled the box with precise levels of
pre-reqs and the problem went away.

Cheers,
Jane

Dejan Mijailovic wrote:

> Hi there, does someone know what is going on here:
>
> Install on SuSE 8 went fine. After the install, daemons came up fine and
> everything
> worked fine. But the problems arise after rebooting the box or restarting
> the netnmrc.
>
> First, netnmrc is, after the install, installed in to the /etc/rc.d/init.d
> directory and that directory is not read by RC and nothing else is there.
> So I had to move it to /etc/rc.d or /etc/init.d (which is the same
> directory) and ensure the ln -s to rc3.d and rc5.d.
>
> After running /etc/init.d/netnmrc start I got this:
>
> Usage: dspmsg [-s setno] <catname> <msgno> ['default' arg ... ]
> ./netnmrc[281]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd: not found
> ./netnmrc[281]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap: not found
> ./netnmrc[281]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap: not found
> ./netnmrc[281]: /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd: not found
> portmap cannot be started, IBM Tivoli NetView daemons cannot be started.
> netnmrc exiting...
> WARNING: bypassing Tivoli NetView daemon restart.
>
> First,... there is nothing in /etc/rc.d/init.d directory anyway.
> Second,..what is "xinetd"?
>
> ..And here is the part of the netnmrc that does it:
>
> #
> # Start rpc.statd
> #
>
> pmpid=`/bin/ps -eo pid,comm | /bin/awk '$2 == "rpc.statd" {print $1; exit}'`
> if [ "$pmpid" = "" ] ; then
>   portmapexe="/sbin/rpc.statd"
>   if [ -x $portmapexe ]; then
>     dspmsg -s 5 nv6000.cat -n 8 'Waiting on rpc.statd to become operational.
> \n'
>      /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd stop
>      /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap stop
>      /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start
>     typeset -i cnt=25
>     while [ "$PMpid" = "" ] && (( $cnt > 0 ))
>     do
>       sleep 2
>       PMpid=`/bin/ps -eo pid,comm | /bin/awk '$2 == "rpc.statd" {print $1;
> exit}'`
>       cnt=$cnt-1
>     done
>      /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start
>
>     if (( $cnt == 0 )); then
>        dspmsg -s 5 nv6000.cat 9 'rpc.statd cannot be started, IBM Tivoli
> NetView daemons cannot be started. \n'
>        dspmsg -s 5 nv6000.cat 10 'netnmrc exiting...\n'
>        dspmsg -s 5 nv6000.cat 402 'WARNING: bypassing Tivoli NetView daemon
> restart.\n'
>        exit 9
>     else
>       dspmsg -s 5 nv6000.cat 11 '*** rpc.statd started \n'
>     fi
>   fi
> else
>         dspmsg -s 5 nv6000.cat 12 'rpc.statd is already running \n'
> fi
>
> Does someone know what is going on?
> Is there something wrong with "netnmrc" script for Linux?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dejan Mijailovic
> Inquent Technologies Inc.
>
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