Re: [Ganglia-developers] dev2 and var-run-pidfile

2005-10-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Martin Knoblauch said on Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 06:31:30PM -0700: to your first problem - I actually suspect a problem with your setup. Never seen a /dev2/ before. Google shows: http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/05/msg00319.html It's actually not a problem in our setup, as such; it

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dev2 and var-run-pidfile

2005-10-14 Thread Seth Alves
Yeah, I didn't really know what the devs would prefer -- take my two-line patch as a way to point out the problem, rather than as the fix I expect to be committed. Mark explained about the pid file in his mail -- when the daemons fork, the init scripts write the wrong pids (generally off by

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dev2 and var-run-pidfile

2005-10-14 Thread Mark Ferlatte
michael chang said on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:59:54PM -0400: Not to mention the patch seems to abandon everyone else who still has a /dev/xyz setup (includes some debian and ubuntu users). Unless we really got the patch wrong, that's not true. It still finds devices in /dev, it just also finds

[Ganglia-developers] Re: var-run-pidfile command line option (was: dev2 and var-run-pidfile)

2005-10-14 Thread michael chang
On 10/14/05, Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: michael chang said on Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:59:54PM -0400: Not to mention the patch seems to abandon everyone else who still has a /dev/xyz setup (includes some debian and ubuntu users). Unless we really got the patch wrong, that's not

Re: [Ganglia-developers] dev2 and var-run-pidfile

2005-10-14 Thread Rick Mohr
While we are discussing the behavior of disk metric collection, I should mention that the current function does not properly handle NFS-root filesystems. The first couple lines of /proc/mounts look like: rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 /dev/root / nfs various options 0 0 The current logic (at least in