QUESTION:
My customer is trying to start the license manager (FlexLM) for an
application automatically at boot time by adding the daemon
startup command to /etc/rc.tcpip (per the application's recommendation).
When we reboot the system, the command does not execute properly.
However, we can run the identical command at the command line and
it runs fine. The application vendor is stumped. Do you have
any ideas why the command won't run from /etc/rc.tcpip but will
run from the command line. (It is not a path problem because we
are using full path names.)
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A: One reason that the daemon is not running when called from
/etc/rc.tcpip is that the "srcmstr" daemon may not be running at
the time rc.tcpip is executed. Later, when the daemon is started
from the command line, srcmstr is running at that point. Here are
some suggestions:
1) Verify that "srcmstr" and /etc/rc.tcpip is executed from
/etc/inittab. Check the /etc/inittab file for the existence
of the following two lines (in the same order):
srcmstr:2:respawn:/etc/srcmstr # System Resource Controller
rctcpip:2:wait:/etc/rc.tcpip > /dev/console 2>&1 #Start TCP/IP
2) Try placing the command at the END of /etc/rc.tcpip, so that
srcmstr has some additional time to start up. You may also want
to place a "sleep" statement after the srcmstr has started:
srcmstr:2:respawn:/etc/srcmstr # System Resource Controller
sleep:2:wait:/usr/bin/sleep 10 # sleep for 10 seconds
rctcpip:2:wait:/etc/rc.tcpip > /dev/console 2>&1 #Start TCP/IP
This will allow the System Resource Controller to fully start,
before the /etc/rc.tcpip file is executed.
3) You might also consider placing the command directly in
/etc/inittab. For example, add the following line to the end
of /etc/inittab:
flexlm:2:once:startsrc -s DAEMONNAME
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This item was created from library item Q649406 CNMML
Additional search words:
AIX ALTERNATE CMD CNMML COMMAND DAEMON ENABLE INDEX IX JAN94 LINE
MANAGEMENT OP OZIBM OZNEW RC.TCPI RC.TCPIP RISCMGMT RISCSYSTEM
SOFTWARE START SYS SYSTEM WON 3.2.3E
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000037080 ITEM: RTA000037080
Dated: 03/1996 Category: RISCMGMT
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