[VoxBo] error for vbsrvd in xinetd

[kimberg at mail.med.upenn.edu]

Hi Julia.  I think there are a few things possibly going on here.  It looks like you first saw this:

> No servers currently available.

and later this:

> "voxq -l":
> 
> Server         Load  CPU Usage Resources
> Herkules       0.08   0 of 1   cpu,bigtape,littletape(0) mailagent(0)

The former means that your machine was not visible, but the latter means that it was.  Since these bits of information come from the same place in the code, I'm going to assume this means that your server was installed and running correctly, but you just ran the first command too soon after starting the scheduler (it takes a few seconds to check in with the server).

> "voxq -b Herkules" (localhost) gives me:
> host Herkules not currently reserved in your name

I'm not sure what you were trying to do here -- voxq -b is for releasing a machine that you've previously reserved with voxq -g.  You should never need to use it when you're the only VoxBo user on the machine.

> So the scheduler cannot access my machine. I've checked the defaults
> file, serverlist, servers/ and the xinetd configuration and everything
> looks right. However when I do "xinetd -d" i get

xinetd -d is the command to start the xinetd server manually in debug mode.  This isn't the normal way to start and stop xinetd.  In Redhat/Fedora, you can restart xinetd with this:
  /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
You have to do that as root or using sudo.  It might be the same command or something similar on your distribution.  But from the output of voxq -l above, it looks like xinetd is already running just fine, and the scheduler is having no problem connecting to the server.

Incidentally, if you need to grab the old version of vbview, I put a separate copy up here:

http://voxbo.org/download/alacarte/linux/oldvbview

dan