Zebra cannot start

[kartoch]

Reported by @Timothy-G-Griffin

1) Here us my setup Debian

VirtualBox

Mac 2) I downloaded your code and built the core, kernel, and file system for netkit-ng (In the end, I made no modifications to filesystem-tweaks) 3) Download the "Simple announcement" lab from the Interdomain routing section of http://wiki.netkit.org/index.php/Labs_Official

4) For some reason, the original netkit setup (on routers) has symbolic links /etc/init.d/zebra --> /etc/init.d/quagga (this quagga script is installed with package quagga)
/etc/zebra --> /etc/quagga So I make appropriate changes to the lab. For router1, for example, the line /etc/init.d/zebra start is changed to /etc/init.d/quagga start and the directory router1/etc/zebra is renamed to router1/etc/quagga 5) use lstart to start the lab. 6) on router 1 we see that the zebra daemon is not running. The phase 2 init script produces the error zebravty_read_config : failed to open configuration file /etc/quagga/zebra.conf : Permission denied

Comments: this lab does not in fact have a zebra.conf file, and it should be OK without it. But when > I do put one in /etc/quagga I still get this error.

[Timothy-G-Griffin]

It would be preferable if we could set up netkit-ng so that labs from netkit-land just work out-out-of-the-box.

BTW --- the reason I'm interested in using netkit-ng is that I want to use netkit with my own hacked version of quagga. Of course the first step, before using a private version of quagga, is to get the old netkit stuff running with the latest official release of quagga. This is where I'm stuck now.

[kartoch]

Just a remark: the fs and kernel build are juste the wheezy version of the debian. Thus the changes between netkit and netkit-ng are about the changes between lenny and wheezy installation of quagga.