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Error wich gets daily

vinayan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:07:54 GMT

Below is the error which I get everday on my production server

"sleeping: fcntl lock of pid file failed: Permission denied"

Anybody can tell me why this erro coming and how can I solve this ?

Rgds
Vinayan

Re: Error wich gets daily

likid0 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:59:25 GMT

This seems like a nfs problem, getting the lock on the files, is this server a NFS client ?

if its so, can you tell us your nfs config?

Thnx

Re: Error wich gets daily

vinayan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:19:13 GMT

Hi
I have 25 nfs shares mounted on my server
Rgds
Vinayan

Re: Error wich gets daily

Ramesh S — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:07:04 GMT

Hi

Where did you get this error ? syslog ??

Which service logs this error ? like NFS,FTP..

In general,

Error implies that there are too many processes trying to take control of this file at the same time, or there is one or more "rogue" processes that are holding the lock for too long.

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh

Re: Error wich gets daily

vinayan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:52:54 GMT

Ramesh
yes its from syslog.

syslog.log_V1:Feb 7 16:59:01 nlxsl047 ftpd[18361]: sleeping: fcntl lock of pid file failed: Permission denied

vinayan

Re: Error wich gets daily

Ramesh S — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:40:59 GMT

Hi

I found a document which says:

The "fcntl lock of pid file failed" message is seen when the ftpd(1M)process can not set a "lock" on the /etc/ftpd/pids/local|remote|all]
file. This implies that there are too many ftpd(1M) processes trying to take control of this file at the same time, or there is one or more "rogue" processes that are holding the lock for too long.

This is only a warning message. The failed fcntl(2) system call will be tried at 1 second intervals until success is returned.

The message is only seen when the ftpaccess(4) file is being used. If the ftpaccess(4) configuration is not required, then it can be disabled using the ftpd(1M) command-line options. See ftpd(1M) for more details.

Thanks & Regards

Ramesh