In few rare cases the management services might fail to start up with a permission denied message.
If you run dpnctl start mcs you will notice the almost generic failure:
root@vdp:/#: dpnctl start mcs
Identity added: /home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid (/home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid)
dpnctl: INFO: Starting MCS...
dpnctl: INFO: To monitor progress, run in another window: tail -f /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-21990
dpnctl: ERROR: error return from "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --start" - exit status 13
dpnctl: INFO: [see log file "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/dpnctl.log"]
If you start MCS from admin mode using mcserver.sh --start --verbose you will notice:
admin@vdp:~/>: mcserver.sh --start --verbose
Permission deniedPermission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm line 587.
Could not create file parser context for file "/usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml": Permission denied at /usr/local/avamar/lib/MCServer.pm line 128
The same above is seen if you run mcserver.sh --test
In the dpnctl.log you will notice the same:
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN
2018/01/17-15:13:55 Permission deniedPermission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm line 587.
2018/01/17-15:13:55 Could not create file parser context for file "/usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml": Permission denied at /usr/local/avamar/lib/MCServer.pm line 128
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END
2018/01/17-15:13:55 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 2>&1
2018/01/17-15:13:55 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 2>&1" exit status = 0 ]
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test" exit status = 13
2018/01/17-15:13:55 rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-21389
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: "rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-21389" - exit status 0
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: MCS status - - - - - - - - - - END
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: MCS status: down.
This is because of incorrect permissions and ownership on the mcserver.xml file. I do not know the reason why the permissions and ownership was flipped.
The ideal permission and ownership on this file should be:
-rwxrwx--- 1 admin admin 50320 Jan 13 01:48 /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml
To change ownership (Be logged in as root)
To change permission run the below:
Then you should be able to proceed further with the restart of the MCS service.
If you run dpnctl start mcs you will notice the almost generic failure:
root@vdp:/#: dpnctl start mcs
Identity added: /home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid (/home/dpn/.ssh/dpnid)
dpnctl: INFO: Starting MCS...
dpnctl: INFO: To monitor progress, run in another window: tail -f /tmp/dpnctl-mcs-start-output-21990
dpnctl: ERROR: error return from "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --start" - exit status 13
dpnctl: INFO: [see log file "/usr/local/avamar/var/log/dpnctl.log"]
If you start MCS from admin mode using mcserver.sh --start --verbose you will notice:
admin@vdp:~/>: mcserver.sh --start --verbose
Permission deniedPermission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm line 587.
Could not create file parser context for file "/usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml": Permission denied at /usr/local/avamar/lib/MCServer.pm line 128
The same above is seen if you run mcserver.sh --test
In the dpnctl.log you will notice the same:
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - BEGIN
2018/01/17-15:13:55 Permission deniedPermission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/XML/LibXML.pm line 587.
2018/01/17-15:13:55 Could not create file parser context for file "/usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml": Permission denied at /usr/local/avamar/lib/MCServer.pm line 128
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - END
2018/01/17-15:13:55 /bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 2>&1
2018/01/17-15:13:55 [ "/bin/cat /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 2>&1" exit status = 0 ]
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: "[ -r /etc/profile ] && . /etc/profile ; /usr/local/avamar/bin/mcserver.sh --test" exit status = 13
2018/01/17-15:13:55 rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-21389
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: "rm -f /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-status-21389 /tmp/dpnctl-get-mcs-status-output-21389" - exit status 0
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: MCS status - - - - - - - - - - END
2018/01/17-15:13:55 dpnctl: INFO: MCS status: down.
This is because of incorrect permissions and ownership on the mcserver.xml file. I do not know the reason why the permissions and ownership was flipped.
The ideal permission and ownership on this file should be:
-rwxrwx--- 1 admin admin 50320 Jan 13 01:48 /usr/local/avamar/var/mc/server_data/prefs/mcserver.xml
To change ownership (Be logged in as root)
# chown admin:admin mcserver.xml
To change permission run the below:
# chmod u+rwx,g+rwx mcserver.xml
Then you should be able to proceed further with the restart of the MCS service.
Hope this helps!