Your message dated Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:15:23 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#502723: proftpd: fails when started if already running
(heartbeat)
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regarding proftpd: fails when started if already running (heartbeat)
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502723: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502723
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Package: proftpd
Version: 1.3.0-19etch1
Severity: normal
When proftpd is started from /etc/init.d and it is already running,
the init.d script reports a failure (and exitcode 1):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/proftpd start
Starting ftp server: proftpd failed!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $?
1
This causes trouble when used in conjunction with heartbeat.
In case a slave node controlled by heartbeat dies, the master node
will attempt to acquire its resources, regardless of whether the
master node already 'owned' those resources or not.
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:11:59 info: Received shutdown notice from
'slave'.
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:11:59 info: Resources being acquired from
slave.
...
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:12:00 info: Running /etc/init.d/djbdns start
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:12:01 info: Running /etc/init.d/apache start
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:12:01 info: Running /etc/init.d/postfix start
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:12:02 info: Running /etc/init.d/proftpd start
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:12:02 ERROR: Return code 1 from
/etc/init.d/proftpd
heartbeat: 2008/10/19_13:12:02 CRIT: Giving up resources due to failure
of proftpd
As can been seen from above logging, heartbeat attempts to start several
services (djbdns, apache, postfix, proftpd). Note that, normally, all of
these services are already running on the master node. Only proftpd returns
an error when attempting to start. This in turn causes hearbeat to fail
and give up its resources :-(
The proposed solution is to add the '--oknodo' option to
/etc/init.d/proftpd when starting the daemon:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d$ diff -Naur proftpd.org proftpd
--- proftpd.org 2008-10-19 14:45:11.000000000 +0200
+++ proftpd 2008-10-19 14:36:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
{
log_daemon_msg "Starting ftp server" "$NAME"
- start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --exec
$DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
+ start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --oknodo --pidfile "$PIDFILE"
--exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
log_end_msg 1
exit 1
Note that the '--oknodo' option is also used by other services like
apache, openssh-server, ntp. So it doesn't seem very unusual to handle
it this way.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages proftpd depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.5.11etch2 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.17 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library
ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libldap2 2.1.30-13.3 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.32-7etch6 mysql database client library
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpq4 8.1.11-0etch1 PostgreSQL C client library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-4etch3 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii netbase 4.29 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii perl 5.8.8-7etch3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii ucf 2.0020 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
proftpd recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: proftpd
Version: 1.3.1-14
Fixed at some point in time during Lenny development. For sure it is ok
in the version above. You can - should ? - use the BPO version to fix
etch.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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