uuidd fails to start

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/29/2012 03:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 03:11 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Third, to work around the problem add the following to the beginning of the init script.
>>
>> mkdir /var/run/uuidd
>> chown uuidd:uuidd /var/run/uuidd
> Their seems to be some other minor problems surrounding this suggestion.  Need to
> read the script and see what needs to be done for real....but eating dinner at the
> moment....  :-)
>

What you really want is to add this....

if ! [ -d /var/run/uuidd ]
   then
      mkdir /var/run/uuidd
      chown uuidd:uuidd /var/run/uuidd
fi

That doesn't fix the problem about "systemctl stop uuidd.service" not stopping the
service.

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