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PIM-SM/SSM multicast routing for UNIX and Linux
http://troglobit.com/projects/pimd/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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/var/run/pimd/pimd.dump: No such file or directory #45

Closed greenpau closed 9 years ago

greenpau commented 9 years ago

Occasionally, when i issue the below command, I get the following error:

# pimd -r
cat: /var/run/pimd/pimd.dump: No such file or directory
#
troglobit commented 9 years ago

Yeah, little bit fragile implementation. With '-r' the pimd client sends a signal to the background pimd server process and then sleeps for a short while. When the client wakes up it expects the file to be there.

On a reasonably loaded system the pimd server process may not yet have had time to cater to the signal and generate the file.

This should definitely be reworked. In the meantime, and as a workaround, you can:

  1. Remove the dump file
  2. Send the signal manually
  3. Wait for the file to be created
  4. Display file
greenpau commented 9 years ago

@troglobit, thank you for the workaround!