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

[Andrew Biagioni]

Jonathan Stanton wrote:

>I'm not positive why this is occuring, but if you don't turn on the
>logging (the -l y flag) does the problem still occur?
>
No, it doesn't -- so I guess I'll just do that.  As you said, it doesn't 
seem to be something I need, I just cut-and-pasted from Postgres-R 
instructions (should have known better?).

Thanks,

       Andrew

>The logging enabled by the -l flag is probably not very useful to anyone
>besides the developers or for debugging very unusual problems. The main
>logging most people use is controlled by the "EventLogFile"
>and "DebugFlags" declarations in the config file.  
>
>Jonathan
>
>On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:35:51PM -0400, Andrew Biagioni wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>
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