[ovs-discuss] ovsdb-server: I/O error: open: –detach failed

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Fri Mar 25 18:29:02 UTC 2016


On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 05:40:34AM +0000, Vivek Gupta wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I am installing OVS on Ubuntu 14 with following steps:
> 
>  1. Downloaded tab ball of OVS 2.5
>  2. untar  the file.
>  3. cd OVSDIR
>  4. ./boot
>  5. ./configure
>  6. make && make install
>  7. mkdir –p /usr/local/etc/openvswitch
>     ii) mkdir –p /usr/local/var/run/openvswitch
>  8. cd $OVS_DIR
>      ./ovsdb/ovsdb-tool create /usr/local/etc/openvswitch/conf.db \
>     ./vswitchd/vswitch.ovsschema
>  9. Start OVS Server
> 
>     ./ovsdb/ovsdb-server --remote=punix:/usr/local/var/run/openvswitch/db.sock
> \
> 
>     --remote=db:Open_vSwitch,Open_vSwitch,manager_options \
> 
>     --private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key \
> 
>     --certificate=Open_vSwitch,SSL,certificate \
> 
>     --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,ca_cert --pidfile –detach
> 
> 
> When I start the server I get error message as "ovsdb-server: I/O error: open:
> –detach failed (No such file or directory)"

Probably you need to write -- instead of –.



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