Re: 'atd' suddenly failing to start

[Jake Morrison <jake_morrison@example.com>]

Dennis,

Sounds like you (or some messed up program) may have made an
improper link to atd. Or the startup script for atd is messed
up.

In case you didn't know....

Startup files are actually little shell scripts, typically
in /etc/rc.d/init.d or /etc/init.d. Symbolic links are made
to these files from the directories for each run level (e.g.
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d) which tells the system when to run
each script.

The shell scripts accept the argument "start" and "stop" (and
sometimes other stuff). 

It seems that the startup script is calling atd with 
the parameter "start", which it doesn't know about, so it
dies. 

This may be because /etc/init.d/atd is a link to the atd binary,
or the startup script is calling atd, passing the script's 
arguments to it. Or maybe the path is being set funny and the
atd script is being called instead of the atd binary.

-Jake

--- Dennis McMurchy <denismcm@example.com> wrote:
>   I used 'ksysv' for the first time the other day to get NFS going on
> bootup.  Seemed to work pretty well, and NFS does indeed get started
> the way I wanted it to.
> 
>   Something puzzles me though:  I now get error messages concerning
> 'atd'
> when I boot, as you can see in the last two lines here:
> 
> May 23 17:12:34 tangrending netfs: Mounting other filesystems
> succeeded
> May 23 17:12:34 tangrending nfs: Starting NFS services:  succeeded
> May 23 17:12:37 tangrending nfs: rpc.rquotad startup succeeded
> May 23 17:12:37 tangrending nfs: rpc.mountd startup succeeded
> May 23 17:12:37 tangrending kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C)
> 1996 okir@example.com).
> May 23 17:12:38 tangrending nfs: rpc.nfsd startup succeeded
> May 23 17:12:38 tangrending identd: identd startup succeeded
> May 23 17:12:38 tangrending atd: fatal: Extra argument start.
> May 23 17:12:38 tangrending rc: Starting atd failed
> 
>   I had a look at the manpage for 'atd', but didn't see anything that
> helped.
> 
>   What's going on here?  
> 
>   Thanks, Dennis
> 
> -- 
> Dennis McMurchy, 
> Sointula, B.C. / Tojinmachi, Fukuoka
> Canada           Japan
> 
> 
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