[Serusers] SER won't start: can't find PID file

Jan Janak jan at iptel.org
Sun Aug 1 23:09:08 CEST 2004


"serctl start" starts ser, so you should not start it by hand. Make sure
that ser is not running, unlink the pid file and then type serctl start.

   Jan.

On 31-07 08:19, CJ Benson wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm having a problem I'm just can't seem to fix. I'm not a newbie to Linux,
> but by the same token, I'm not a GURU either. I'm trying to set up SER and
> so far everything is going according to plan, except for one little problem.
> 
>  When trying to start SER I get the following message:
> 
> Starting SER: cat: /var/run/ser.pid: No such file or directory.
> 
> SO for fun I touched a file with that name in that directory to see what
> would happen. I then get:
> 
> Starting SER: PID file exists! (/var/run/ser.pid) already running?
> 
> This is all obtained by running "serctl start". Prior to running I  ran "ser
> -ddd -P /var/run/ser.pid" then I run serctrl, but am left being stuck in
> this situation. 
> 
> Your help would me be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> CJ
> 
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