Environment
Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 (OES 2) Linux Support Pack 3
Situation
When e-Directory is started or restarted (rcnsdsd start / restart), the following messages are visible in/var/opt/novell/log/ncpserv.log;
[! 2011-09-29 19:02:21] InitNCPServer: Cannot
attach vigil.ko memory. Ensure that vigil.ko is loaded.
[! 2011-09-29 19:02:21] VTEST_PMD_Stat Err: fopen
returned null for path /proc/pmd/stat
[! 2011-09-29 19:02:21] VTEST_PMD_Open Err: VTEST_PMD_Stat() reports: 2
[! 2011-09-29 19:02:21] VTEST_PMD_Close Err: *smemHandle is null Bad arg.
[! 2011-09-29 19:02:21] VTEST_PMD_Open Err: VTEST_PMD_Stat() reports: 2
[! 2011-09-29 19:02:21] VTEST_PMD_Close Err: *smemHandle is null Bad arg.
Resolution
The messages are related to VIGIL(novell-vigil), the Novell Storage Services (NSS) auditing engine and are seen when this is not started, thus the messages are normally cosmetic and can be ignored.
By default auditing is disabled.
By default auditing is disabled.
Additional Information
Because novell-vigil is not started, the kernel modul vigil.ko is not loaded and /proc/pmd/stat does not exist.