FUD System Log Messages

This chapter describes messages with the FUD prefix. They are generated by the UDP forwarding process (fud), which forwards UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packets from a network to a server for services that run over UDP.

FUD_ARGUMENT_FAILURE

System Log Message

Unknown option "option"

Description

One or more options provided on the 'fud' command line were invalid. The UDP forwarding process (fud) initialized but ignored the invalid options.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Reissue the 'fud' command with the correct options.

FUD_BAD_SERVER_ADDR_FAILURE

System Log Message

Destination address of destination-address is invalid

Description

One or more server addresses configured for the UDP forwarding process (fud) were invalid.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Reconfigure the fud process with valid server addresses.

FUD_BIND_FAILURE

System Log Message

bind(port port) failed: error-message

Description

The UDP forwarding process (fud) received the indicated error when it tried to bind a socket to a local address.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_DAEMON_FAILURE

System Log Message

Unable to run in the background as daemon: error-message

Description

The UDP forwarding process (fud) could not create a version of itself to run in the background as a daemon.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_MEMORY_ALLOCATION_FAILURE

System Log Message

Unable to allocate count bytes of memory: error-message

Description

The UDP forwarding process (fud) could not allocate the indicated amount of memory from the heap.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_PERMISSION_FAILURE

System Log Message

program-name must be run as root

Description

The user who attempted to start the UDP forwarding process (fud) was not the root user, so the process did not start.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Become the root user before issuing the 'fud' command.

FUD_PIDLOCK_FAILURE

System Log Message

Unable to lock PID file; another program-name was running

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) attempted to lock the file that records its process ID (PID), which serves to prevent multiple instances of the fud process from running simultaneously. The attempt failed.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Cause

Another instance of the fud process is running.

Action

Check whether another fud process is running, and stop it if appropriate.

FUD_PIDUPDATE_FAILURE

System Log Message

Unable to update PID file for program-name

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) attempted to update the file that records its process ID (PID), which serves to prevent multiple instances of the fud process from running simultaneously. The attempt failed.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Cause

Another instance of the fud process is running.

Action

Check whether another fud process is running, and stop it if appropriate.

FUD_RECVMSG_FAILURE

System Log Message

Exiting because of repeated recvmsg() failures

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) could not receive data from the network, which it needs to do during normal operation.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_RTSOCK_WRITE_FAILURE

System Log Message

Unable to write to routing socket: error-message

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) could not write to its routing socket for the indicated reason.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_SENDMSG_FAILURE

System Log Message

sendmsg() to destination-address port port on interface interface-name rt_inst routing-instance failed: error-message

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) could not send data to the indicated destination port and address via the indicated interface and routing instance, which it needs to do during normal operation.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_SENDMSG_NOINT_FAILURE

System Log Message

sendmsg() to destination-address port port rt_inst routing-instance failed: error-message

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) could not send data to the indicated destination port and address via the indicated routing instance, which it needs to do during normal operation.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_SETSOCKOPT_FAILURE

System Log Message

setsockopt(arguments) failed: error-message

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) could not set the indicated socket option.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.

FUD_SOCKET_FAILURE

System Log Message

socket(arguments) failed: error-message

Description

The UDP Forwarding process (fud) could not create a socket.

Type

Error: An error occurred

Severity

error

Facility

LOG_DAEMON

Action

Contact your technical support representative.