[Spread-users] Newbie - new installation dies after seconds

[Andrew Biagioni]

This is my first encounter with Spread;  I'm trying to install it to run 
Postgres-R on top of it.

I installed Spread from source (3.17.0) on RH Linux 7.3 as per 
instructions;  I then customized a spread.conf file which I put in /etc/ 
(BTW, the network config. instructions are very good), as follows:

	Spread_Segment  127.0.0.255:9203 {
	        localhost               127.0.0.1
	}

	DebugFlags = { ALL }

	EventLogFile = /var/log/spread.log

	EventTimeStamp = "[%a %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S]"

	Spread_Segment 192.168.1.255:9203 {
	        sync1   192.168.1.71
	        sync4   192.168.1.82
	}

When I start spread ( spread -c /etc/spread.conf -l y & ), it dies after 
a few seconds with the message:

	Log_alive: error (No such file or directory) could not \
	open file localhost
	Exit caused by Alarm(EXIT)

I also tried running with the sample.spread.conf file unchanged as 
spread.conf;  it dies very quickly.  The whole log file (after the 
credits/comments) is:

	ip_init: IP access control file not found.
	If you are using IP based access controls, please \
	make sure the file exists.
	Conf_init: using file: /etc/spread.conf
	Successfully configured Segment 0 [127.0.0.255:4803] \
	with 1 procs:
	                   localhost: 127.0.0.1
	Finished configuration file.
	Conf_init: My name: localhost, id: 127.0.0.1, port: \
	4803
	Spread: setugid and chroot successeful
	Membership id is ( 2130706433, 1055356088)
	--------------------
	Configuration at localhost is:
	Num Segments 1
	        1       127.0.0.255       4803
	                localhost               127.0.0.1
	====================
	Log_alive: error (No such file or directory) could not \
	open file localhost
	Exit caused by Alarm(EXIT)

I know a file called "localhost" is created in the location from which I 
am running spread with owner root, and three lines:

	B    1055358658
	M    1055358665    1055358665           0 >   0
	A    1055358665           0

I changed the file's ownership to user "spread", access 666, but the 
error still persists.

I went through all the docs. I could find, but to no avail.  Any 
suggestions?

Thanks,

		Andrew