On Monday, November 07, 2005, at 10:26PM, Jason Dixon <email@hidden> wrote:
>On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:40 PM, Josh Wisenbaker wrote:
>
>> On Nov 7, 2005, at 9:09 PM, Jason Dixon wrote:
>>
>>> Some of you might recall our problems with DirectoryService
>>> (10.3.9) hanging every ~2 weeks, effectively breaking all services
>>> that use OD. The only "fix" to date is to kill the
>>> DirectoryService pid and start it up again. The problem hasn't
>>> gone away yet, so I've resorted to "therapeutic restarts", hoping
>>> this will prevent whatever is causing this lockup.
>>>
>>> It appears that "serveradmin [stop|start] dirserv" will be
>>> sufficient, but I'm looking for someone who can confirm this
>>> before I attempt this on a production server. Anyone?
>>
>> I would just 'killall DirectoryService'. initd will restart it as
>> needed.
>
>You mean mach_init? Looks like I found an example of that in
>system.log. IIRC, trying to start DirectoryService manually always
>ended with an error in the log, but somehow it managed to start
>anyways. Makes sense now.
>
>Nov 7 16:50:16 xserve pop3[8500]: Sent launch request message to
>DirectoryService mach_init port
Erm, yeah that's it.
Too much Tiger time lately...
Thanks,
josh
www.afp548.com
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