some more info on not stopping services

[Alan Robertson]

Tony Willoughby wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 19 April 2001 11:10, Juri Haberland wrote:
> > Tony Willoughby wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 April 2001 08:42, Alan Robertson wrote:
> > > > Juri Haberland wrote:
> > > > > Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
> > > > > > Apr 19 13:14:07 p2a heartbeat[27206]: ERROR: controlfifo2msg:
> > > > > > cannot create message
> > > > > > Apr 19 13:14:07 p2a heartbeat[27206]: ERROR: control_process: NULL
> > > > > > message
> >
> > > > > >
> >
> > > > > > What do these error messages mean?
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Jeroen,
> > > > >
> > > > > everyone is getting these error messages. Obviously there's something
> > > > > wrong in heartbeat but it is not related to your problems (I think).
> > > > > I would say ignore them for now until Alan or someone else (maybe
> > > > > Luis?) finds the reason and fix it.
> > > >
> > > > Had you guys reminded me in time for 0.4.9, it would have been fixed
> > > > ;-). [In other words "it's all your fault" ;-)]
> > > > I had gotten to the point I didn't see them any more.
> > > >
> > > > It should now be fixed in CVS
> > >
> > > Is this the problem of a resource script not implementing "status"
> > > correctly, or something else?
> >
> > 
> > Something else ;-)
> 
> Not to beat a dead horse, but I thought someone on this list stated that,
> although annoying, these log messages are harmless.
> 
> Should I be upgrading from CVS or sticking with the latest major release?  If
> it's harmless, I'd rather not upgrade.

It's completely harmless.  The CVS fix was to remove the messages.

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh