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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