hai,
i am using redhat enterprise linux 4 . i want to start a service from the start up. but when i check the status of the service its showing
<service name> dead but subsys locked.
but when i delete the file like: rm -f -R /var/lock/subsys/<service name>. then

i can start the service. but same problem will occur again when i reboot the system. but i want the service to work from the start up. every time deleting the file from /var/lock/subsys is not feasible.. Is there any body faced the same problem.? Is there any solution to solve this problem.?


Thank you
Arun kumar

What service is this? Is it happening for all of your services?

Does it only happen when you reboot the system?
meaning, once you remove the lock file and start the service, if you restart or stop and then start it again from the command-line does it work correctly.


All of the default service scripts installed during a RHEL4 installation should have an rm -f /var/lock/... statement in their stop function that deletes the service when it shuts-down. If this is a non-RHEL4 provided service you may want to review the init script for this service and make sure that it has the "proper" configuration for cleaning up the lock file when it stops. You can reference any of the properly working service init script to see how they are doing it.