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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Chicken and egg problem with multipath-tools
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:27:52 +0000
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On 03/04/2013 11:13 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> multipathd/main.c:1996 /* Startup complete, create logfile */ 
> pid_rc = pidfile_create(DEFAULT_PIDFILE, daemon_pid); /* Ignore
> errors, we can live without */
> 
> 
> No option, but multipathd doesn't _need_ to create a pidfile. And
> it certainly won't abort if it cannot create one.

Maybe an old version (prior to commit 6cda789 in May 2011)?

- -       if (pidfile_create(DEFAULT_PIDFILE, getpid())) {
- -               if (logsink)
- -                       log_thread_stop();
+       if (pidfile_create(DEFAULT_PIDFILE, getpid()))
+               /* Ignore errors, we can live without */
+               condlog(1, "failed to create pidfile");

- -               exit(1);
- -       }

If this is the case then using a more recent multipath-tools would
definitely be a good plan.

Regards,
Bryn.
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