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PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:59 pm    Post subject: unable to start /usr/lib64/sa/sadc as a service [Solved] Reply with quote

I have been trying to start sysstat as a service.

I can manually type:
Code:
/var/lib64/sa/sadc -S XALL 10 -

and it works, but the process wont release or run in background.

so, I manually type:
Code:
nohup /var/lib/64/sa/sadc -S XALL 10 - &

and it works as desired.

Trying to put this into the inti script:
Code:
start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/lib64/sa/sadc -S XALL 10 -

I get this in return:
Code:

 * Writing a dummy startup record using sadc (see sadc(8))... ...
Usage: /usr/lib64/sa/sadc [ options ] [ <interval> [ <count> ] ] [ <outfile> ]
Options are:
[ -C <comment> ] [ -F ] [ -L ] [ -V ]
[ -S { INT | DISK | IPV6 | POWER | SNMP | XDISK | ALL | XALL } ]
 * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/lib64/sa/sadc'                                    [ !! ]
 * ERROR: sysstat failed to start


what in the command causes the hang up?
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I added a -- after sadc like this...

Code:
start-stop-daemon --start --exec /usr/lib64/sa/sadc -- -S XALL 10 -


and it appears to work correctly. but I tried this a few times earlier and it failed, but its working now. Ill try same on a couple of other boxes and see if it continues to work.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 11:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was getting some failures earlier

I was including --pidfile /var/run/sadc.pid, appearently this does not work well with the above line.
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