[BlueOnyx:04197] Mystery boot up issue with root filesystem?

[Jeff Jones]

Hi all,

After installing some file replication software, it won't seem to start up properly on BlueOnyx for some reason.

>From the boot up - I see the server comes up past the "Re-mounting root filesystem in read-write mode" OK
The next thing on the boot process, this replication software tries to run a script and write a log file. As the script runs, it tries to write to /var/log/nameoflogfile.log - but complains of 'No such file or directory'.

I then get more of these No such file or directory' errors - after which a FAILED where the script fails. 

The next line in boot is 

Mounting local filesystems
Enabling local filesystem quotas

And so on..

Because the script is unable to log, we can't see the problem. The server then boots up and works fine - just replication software not working.

BX is telling that the root filesystem has been remounted in read / write mode - so in this case, why can't it see / write the log file to /var/log?

Any ideas? Suggestions for me to troubleshoot further? I have tried creating the file manually, but I still get the error - it's almost as it the script can't access /var/log.

Cheers,

Jeff