UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi, i had an applicatoin which is not running cos one of its daemon is not running.. i get the applicatoin to run by running the daemon first... its manual job... so quite cumbersome..

i have backups in the night, with the crontab -l entry with logs written. the logs indicated successful backups and startup of daemons.

so what could be wrong..

i am running HP-UX acs_lpa B.11.00

I think you are asking about a startup script and not a true daemon, because they run all the time like inetd or initd.

You will need to tell us how the app normally gets started. Does it run from an rc3.d directory at system boot? My Oracle team starts up their app from the rc3.d directory at startup.

Also, how do you go about manually start it up? Is this truly a daemon that runs all the time or is it just an app startup script that runs only once?

Give us some background on what is a normal startup for this application.

HOWEVER, the (script or daemon) that is causing the application not to run had been resolved. i checked the crontab -l entry and realised that the original script had the (script or daemon) started FIRST before the database. Based on my young BUT hungry unix knowledge, i knew (hope that i am right) that i need to start the database before the (Script or daemon...) and off i went..

AND the next day, bingo, my uses had no problem with logging to the application and i checked my enforeced log entries.. and they logged fine...


So to pursure this continuous pursue of unix excellence, i tried to find this rc3.d and had no choice to but to do the below

i issued this find / -name rc3.d -print

then got the below

/sbin/rc3.d
NFS server (pid885@/net) not responding still trying


okay, a list of questions... ;D

1) this rc<number>.d is the run-level in unix?

2) when i do a ls-ltr rc3.d, i get a list of entries and TWO of them are
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 23 Dec 19 2000 S100nfs.server -> /sbin/init.d/nfs.server
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 16 Mar 14 2001 S900mqm -/sbin/init.d/mqm

and i think the above entries are related to the error of "NFS server (pid885@/net) not responding still trying"

which i get from dmesg as belows..

<myservername> vmunix: NFS server (pid885@/net) not responding still trying

First, It is very important that any database startup before the application assoc with it will be able to run properly. My understanding is that an App tries to send threads out to the DB to establish connection to it. So this can't be done if the DB is not running.

Second, the /sbin/rc3.d directory is a representation of what processes start based on runlevel for HPUX. There is one for each runlevel in HPUX. (/sbin/rc0.d thru rc4.d) the last one, rc4.d, is generally used only for development and testing of scripts at least for me.

My DBAs have the DB start in /sbin/rc3.d at boot time and the lsnrs for data as well. Yours may be started differently, via crontab. My DB runs 24/7 so that may be the difference.

All other major UNIX brands have something similar to this. Where processes are either started or killed based on the runlevel and whether the system is going up or coming down.

NFS server (pid885@/net) not responding still trying

hi, i am still stuck with the above error.. any help? thanks

Your server is trying to mount an NFS mount from some server which it cannot contact - it continues to try because this was a soft mount (if it can't mount it then backgrounds the job to keep trying to mount).

Check your /etc/fstab to see what may be trying to mount. Also look for any auto mounts (such as home directories). Check that the nfs daemons are running.

If you are the master server, I beleive that you need to make sure that the other system has the directory that you are trying to get to. It is possible that it is non-existent.

If your host is the client, the other host needs to check the /etc/exports file and re-export the list with exportfs so as to update it.

YMMV