lvlnboot

[Paul Thomson_2]

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 ??

[S.K. Chan]

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 ??

[S.K. Chan]

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

[Michael Tully]

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

[Paul Thomson_2]

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.

[Tom Geudens]

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

[Paul Thomson_2]

I guess this would show on swlist if installed ?

[Tom Geudens]

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

[Darrell Allen]

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

[George_Dodds]

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

[Byron Myers]

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.