On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 07:17:09PM +0000, vinny_abe...@dell.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if anyone has encountered this problem. We're running smokeping > 2.6.7 on FreeBSD 8.3. When the system boots up, the startup script tries to > start smokeping, but smokeping errors out on initializing the ssh-keyscan > probe with the following error: > > Starting smokeping. > ### parsing dig output...OK > ERROR: output of '/usr/bin/ssh-keyscan -t dsa,rsa,rsa1 127.0.0.1' does not > match (?i-xsm:^# \\S+ SSH-) > at (eval 56) line 1 > > /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start smokeping > > > The very strange thing is if I start smokeping using the same startup script > manually after the system has booted, I get no error at all and everything > works fine. > > Any thoughts on why this is and how I would go about correcting it? > > Thanks! > > -Vinny
Peter's assessment of the cause is probably accurate, but the FreeBSD rc(8) system likely is already ordering your startup scripts correctly. Read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-rcd.html And look at your system's current service dependency order: rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* | less On my system, I see that sshd starts immediately before smokeping. If sshd forks into the background quickly, before the service is 100% up and running, smokeping could start before sshd is ready for it. I suspect you'll have to put a 'sleep 3' or something at the top of your smokeping startup script, for some value of '3'. Jim _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list smokeping-users@lists.oetiker.ch https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
