On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jan Harkes wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:37:32PM +0000, J.D. Hedley wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to setup a coda server on Redhat 6.2, from the latest coda
> > rpms version 5.3.12
> > 
> > everything seems fine until I try to start codasrv when I get 'open_log
> > failed' with an RVM_EIO in the SysLog.  The log file is there and
> > looks ok, however.  I've tried different setup parameters, file sizes etc
> > - still the same error.
> 
> What is in /vice/srv.conf, are you using relative pathnames?

as it happens, it was just this
once I'd edited the file (which is /etc/coda/server.conf from those
rpms) and put in absolute paths to the log and data files it works no
problem.
nice and simple!

thanks
John