topic Re: lvlnboot in Operating System - HP-UX

lvlnboot

Paul Thomson_2 — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:42:19 GMT

In the syslog on a server there are instances of
Jan 31 02:33:31 dl188_2 LVM[22350]: /usr/sbin/lvlnboot -v

This seems to occur between 2.30 and 3am most mornings.

There are no cron entries for this, any ideas what may start this on the server ??

Re: lvlnboot

S.K. Chan — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:50:55 GMT

Nothing to worry about. This kind of message will appear in syslog whenever root runs ..
SAM->Disk&Filesystems->Disk Devices

but do you got anyone running the above 2.30am ??

Re: lvlnboot

S.K. Chan — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:54:34 GMT

One more thing ..
double check your SAM log to see if the lvlnboot entry correspond to that in syslog. In SAM run ..
Options->View SAM log

Re: lvlnboot

Michael Tully — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:54:36 GMT

Hi,

There must be a script that runs it. On some
of my systems it only runs at system startup.
Running 'lvlnboot -v' only displays information, it does not change anything.

-Michael

Re: lvlnboot

Paul Thomson_2 — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:56:38 GMT

Thats the thing no - one except myself and another person would be logged on at this time.

Its quite strange, but there is after each lvlnboot -v command about 2 minutes later a SCSI: Late REQ for command phase is received to the CD ROM. So far this is the only consistent thing. I cannnot see how this would affect the CD ROM in any way. Am just trying to narrow down the causes.

Re: lvlnboot

Tom Geudens — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 05:57:18 GMT

Hi,
Are you by any change running an inventory tool (like cfg2html) ? Some of these tools execute lvlnboot (cfg2html does).
As far as I know lvlnboot does not run by itself ... so something is starting it :-)

Hope this helps,
Tom Geudens

Re: lvlnboot

Paul Thomson_2 — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 06:10:56 GMT

I guess this would show on swlist if installed ?

Re: lvlnboot

Tom Geudens — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 06:18:58 GMT

Hi
cfg2html (and most tools like it) should show up in the crontab ...
The fact that it always executes at exactly the same time also points at "scheduling".

For more info on cfg2html take a look at http://members.tripod.com/rose_swe/cfg/cfg.html

Regards,
Tom Geudens

Re: lvlnboot

Darrell Allen — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 13:36:55 GMT

Hi Paul,

Do you make an Ignite backup during that time frame? It also executes lvlnboot (at least make_tape_recovery does).

Do you also see vgcfgbackup messages at the same time? Again, these are also run when making an Ignite backup.

Darrell

Re: lvlnboot

George_Dodds — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:23:37 GMT

Hallo Tommo having fun? Troisdorf by any chance?

I doubt if you have cfg2html on that box.

Any chance of the rest of the log, output from lvlnboot -v probably goes to a log file somewhere.

Possibly an old script thats kicking about, would be interesting to run dpd (if you still have that script) at the time its running.

Have fun

George

Re: lvlnboot

Byron Myers — Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:36:39 GMT

What I would do... Copy lvlnboot (save it). Make my own script to replace lvlnboot. In the script do something like ps -ef >/tmp/ps.out
The next morning look at ps.out and discover the parent that ran your script. Of course, copy back over the real lvlnboot.