Bug 16217 – default state file location is a VERY BAD choice

Bug 16217 - default state file location is a VERY BAD choice

Summary:	default state file location is a VERY BAD choice

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	pvm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	high Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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Reported:	2000-08-15 00:32 EDT by Alexander L. Belikoff
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-08-15 15:18:10 EDT
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Description Alexander L. Belikoff 2000-08-15 00:32:54 EDT

When started, pvmd3 creates a couple of files keeping its state:
pvm[dl].<UID> . By default, it puts them into /tmp.

The problem is, PVM daemon doesn't touch those files after that. Thus, in
case there is no PVM activity for 10 days or such, the state files will get
removed by tmpwatch. This renders PVM majorly messed up, when only
kill(1)ing a daemon and restarting it can help.

The proper solution is:

a. In %postinstall script:

mkdir -p /var/run/pvm
chmod 1777 /var/run/pvm


b. In /etc/init.d/pvm:

export PVM_TMP=/var/run/pvm

Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-08-15 09:45:23 EDT

Agreed - some programs can run for a long time (and for a little used cluster,
there doesn't need to be anything running for that period of time). Will fix.

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2000-08-15 15:00:40 EDT

That isnt all you can do....

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-08-15 15:04:00 EDT

Aha? I have a fixed RPM, but what could you do?

Comment 4 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-08-15 15:18:08 EDT

Submitted to the tree

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