Bugzilla Bug 125700

When emerging arpwatch 2.1.11-r1 no /var/lib/arpwatch directory is created.
Thus arpwatch can't start through /etc/init.d/arpwatch

When emerging any arpwatch /etc/init.d/arpwatch has a "uses cupsd" dependency.
I didn't have cupsd installed and arpwatch kept wanting to start before
anything, even before it's other dependencies such as "need net". 
Not sure why, but removing "uses cupsd" fixed this problem.

Created an attachment (id=81834) [edit]
Also creates /var/lib/arpwatch

Updated the dodir to include /var/lib/arpwatch

Remove the "uses cupsd" from /etc/init.d/arpwatch (files/arpwatch.init in
portage tree)
Can't see a use for the cupsd other that the author wanting to change the order
of loading arpwatch on his system.

Sorry. Previous comment's title mentiones "Also creates /var/lib/arpwatch".
this is not the case and was a mistake. I first wanted to type something else.

Actually it seems arpwatch is kind of broken. I just finished emerge -e world
on a box where it worked before and now it fails to start:

# /etc/init.d/arpwatch start 
 * Starting arpwatch on br100 ...
touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/arpwatch/br100.dat': No such file or direc  [ ok
]

/etc/init.d/arpwatch contains this line:
DATAFILE=/var/lib/arpwatch/${IFACE}.dat while qlist arpwatch tells me:
/var/arpwatch/.keep
/var/arpwatch/d.awk
/var/arpwatch/e.awk
/var/arpwatch/p.awk
/var/arpwatch/duplicates.awk
/var/arpwatch/massagevendor-old
/var/arpwatch/massagevendor
/var/arpwatch/arp2ethers
/var/arpwatch/euppertolower.awk
/var/arpwatch/arpfetch
/var/arpwatch/bihourly

On another box that was not yet rebuilt and contains the version installed on
Mon Aug 23 17:56:59 2004, qlist lists the same directory, but the init script
contains: DATAFILE=/var/arpwatch/${IFACE}.dat
As a consequence, it works there.

I had a quick look at the history, but there's a lot of changes all in
2.1.11-r1, so i didn't really find where it broke.

No. arpwatch is not broken. 

the ebuild just doesn't create the /var/lib/arpwatch directory. 
Thus arpwatch cannot start.

the ebuild i attached fixes both this problem and the "use cupsd" init.d
dependency.

just copy them over your arpwatch ebuild and files/arpwatch.init, then rerun
the digest with "ebuild
/usr/portage/net-analyzer/arpwatch/arpwatch-2.1.11-r1.ebuild digest".

will fix the problem until someone get's to testing and putting it into the
portage snapshop. i dont see why it hasn't been done yet. it's been 7 months
now.

(In reply to comment #4)
> the ebuild just doesn't create the /var/lib/arpwatch directory. 
> Thus arpwatch cannot start.

There ebuild installs some files to /var/arpwatch - which is where the old
inist script was refering to. I don't think there should be both
/var/lib/arpwatch AND /var/arpwatch, should there?

> i dont see why it hasn't been done yet. it's been 7 months
> now.

It was closed with WORKSFORME (iirc), i assume that's why no one looked at it.

init.d cups dependency removed. I wonder why it was there?

Problem /var/lib/arpwatch directory is fixed in arpwatch-2.1.13-r3.ebuild. 

amne: This directory is required as init script stores pid file there.
arpwatch-2.1.13-r3 is long time in portage, thus I think the best solution is
to mark it stable.

arch teams. Stabilize it, please.

ah. figures. i misunderstood what "WORKSFORME" means. at the time i thought it
meant: the fixed i proposed works for me.

anyway. i think there should be two directories. /var/arpwatch contains scripts
used by arpwatch. /var/lib/arpwatch is where the arp->ip list files go.

maybe /var/arpwatch should rather be /usr/lib/arpwatch?

but that's someone else's decision.

Seems making arpwatch-2.1.13-r3.ebuild stable is a good idea - it works fine.
I also noticed that the scripts from /var/arpwatch have been moved to
/usr/share/doc/arpwatch-2.1.13-r3 now.
Looks like a good idea to me.

1) emerges fine
2) pases collision test
3) seems to work

Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash
/etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer
parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict test"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE@euro"
LC_ALL="de_DE@euro"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X Xaw3d a52 alsa arts artworkextra asf audiofile avi
bash-completion beagle berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bootsplash branding bzip2 cairo
cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl custom-cflags dbus
dga directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emacs emboss
encode esd evo exif expat fam fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox fortran ftp gb gcj gdbm
gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq idn imagemagick imap ipv6
isdnlog java javascript jikes jpeg jpeg2k ldap leim libg++ lm_sensors mad
maildir matroska mbox mikmod mime mmx mmxext mng mono mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mule
nautilus ncurses nforce2 nls nocardbus nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia objc ogg
opengl pam pcre pdf pdflib perl plotutils pmu png ppds pppd preview-latex print
python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs samba sdk session slang
spell spl sse ssl svg svga t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex theora thunderbird tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vcd videos vorbis win32codecs wmf
wxwindows xine xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse
input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_de userland_GNU video_cards_radeon
video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

ppc stable

x86 happy

Created an attachment (id=96738) [edit]
nofork patch to allow use with daemontools

I had a problem with arpwatch dieing often. As I lack the skill to troubleshoot
that problem, I found a nofork patch out there
(http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/djb/daemontools/applications/arpwatch-2.1a11-nofork.patch)
and made the changes needed for 2.1.13-r3.

New ebuild forthcoming.

Created an attachment (id=96739) [edit]
Ebuild to apply nofork patch.

See above patch...

sparc stable.

(In reply to comment #12)
> I had a problem with arpwatch dieing often. As I lack the skill to
> troubleshoot that problem, I found a nofork patch out there

Dan. Thank you for the patch! I've added it in arpwatch-2.1.15-r2.ebuild. Test
and report if it works for you with daemontools now. And next time for requests
like that, please, create a new bug.

(In reply to comment #15)
> Dan. Thank you for the patch! I've added it in arpwatch-2.1.15-r2.ebuild. Test
> and report if it works for you with daemontools now. And next time for requests
> like that, please, create a new bug.
> 

Been running like a champ since I started up... and next time I'll know to
start a new bug. Thanks.

hppa stable.

aye, sir