failed to daemon()

Alex Stapleton alexs at advfn.com
Tue Dec 20 16:08:55 UTC 2005


On 20 Dec 2005, at 15:55, Brian Moon wrote:

> We have memcached 1.1.12 deployed on 5 Gentoo machines already.  We  
> have two fresh Gentoo 2005.1 installed servers with memcached  
> 1.1.12 emerged.  We are getting the error: "failed to daemon() in  
> order to daemonize" when using the -d option.  We have it working  
> by using start-stop-daemon with the background option, but would  
> rather not have these two machines running different than the other  
> Gentoo boxes.  I see the code that is throwing the error, but I  
> have no idea what could be causing it.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>

Stop using Gentoo on production machines. It mostly works on the  
desktop, but on servers it generally results in random weirdness and  
copious amounts of pain due to portage being a constantly moving  
target. Please, just *try* something sensible like RHAT or Debian.


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