I initially just straced the parent process (22802 amflush normal) which didn't
output anything:
Here's the ps -ef again with the trace commands for each PID involved:
ps -ef |grep amanda
amanda 22803 22802 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 driver normal nodump
amanda 22804 22803 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 taper normal
amanda 22805 22804 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 taper normal
root 27581 27541 0 17:29 pts/0 00:00:00 su - amanda
amanda 27582 27581 0 17:29 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
amanda 22802 1 98 14:01 ? 05:04:39 amflush normal
amanda 27972 27582 0 19:10 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -ef
amanda 27973 27582 0 19:10 pts/0 00:00:00 grep amanda
-bash-2.05b$ strace -p 22803
read(0,
strace -p 22804
read(0,
-bash-2.05b$ strace -p 22805
read(3,
-bash-2.05b$ strace -p 22802
No output for this...
I'm not sure what to expect for my results to be honest. If this isn't normal
then I guess I should kill it. Then I need to know what the Root Cause is so I
can fix it.
On another matter, could of I just deleted these directories if I didn't want to
flush them or would that cause problems?
Thanks,
James
Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> wrote:
> James Marcinek wrote:
>
> > amflush itself, the others aren't reporting anything:
> >
> > ps -ef |grep amanda |grep -v grep
> > amanda 22803 22802 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 driver normal nodump
> > amanda 22804 22803 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 taper normal
> > amanda 22805 22804 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 taper normal
> > root 27581 27541 0 17:29 pts/0 00:00:00 su - amanda
> > amanda 27582 27581 0 17:29 pts/0 00:00:00 -bash
> > amanda 22802 1 98 14:01 ? 04:26:21 amflush normal
>
>
> That's not normal at all.
> You may have to kill it, then run amcleanup, and try again.
>
> If possible, I'm still interested in the loop it seems to be in
> by issuing strace or truss, before killing it.
>
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >>>It's been runninng for several hours now and my logs haven't been
populating
> >>>since it started. Here's the last few entries:
> >>>
> >>>START amflush date 20041207
> >>>START driver date 20041207
> >>>START taper datestamp 20041207 label Normal18 tape 0
> >>>
> >>>I'm a bit confused because I now see a folder 20041207 in my /var/holding.
> >
> > It's
> >
> >>>empty, which is good if it's working properly.
> >>
> >>For flush, that's normal.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Why isn't anything being populated too(amflush and log file)? Is there any
> >
> > way
> >
> >>>to tell if it's running properly?
> >>
> >>On linux: strace -p The-PID
> >>on Solaris: truss -p The-PID
> >>
> >>"lsof -o the-PID" tells you which files are opened, and sometimes can
> >>give a hint what it is doing (e.g. which file it is reading/writing).
> >
> >
> > I issued an ls0f -op then-PID and got the following:
> >
> > lsof -p 22802
> > COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> > amflush 22802 amanda cwd DIR 8,18 1052672 5783888 /tmp/amanda
> > amflush 22802 amanda rtd DIR 8,18 4096 2 /
> > amflush 22802 amanda txt REG 8,18 14072 10174809 /usr/sbin/amflush
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 106400 3784801 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 102888 14172763
> > /usr/lib/libamserver-2.4.3.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 36460 14172762
> > /usr/lib/libamtape-2.4.3.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 105992 14172761
> > /usr/lib/libamanda-2.4.3.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 212020 8110087
/lib/tls/libm-2.3.2.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 173000 14172290
> > /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4.3
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 11784 3784789
> > /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 91624 3784813
/lib/libnsl-2.3.2.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 52492 3784816
> > /lib/libnss_files-2.3.2.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda mem REG 8,18 1539996 8110085
/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
> > amflush 22802 amanda 0u CHR 1,3 163842 /dev/null
> > amflush 22802 amanda 1w REG 8,18 1015 12828895
> > /var/lib/amanda/normal/amflush
> > amflush 22802 amanda 2w REG 8,18 1015 12828895
> > /var/lib/amanda/normal/amflush
> > amflush 22802 amanda 3r FIFO 0,5 6348400 pipe
> > amflush 22802 amanda 4w FIFO 0,5 6348400 pipe
> > amflush 22802 amanda 5r DIR 8,18 4096 5882220
/var/holding/20041122
>
> That looks normal, I believe.
>
>
>
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