what is brcm-iscsi.log ?
 

Hi All,

Recently a few days ago a log file has been created on our server called brcm-iscsi.log. I do not know what does it contains but seems like something related to scsi devices.
I checked the log file and it contains this values.

ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:24 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:25 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:26 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:27 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:28 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:29 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:30 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:31 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:32 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:33 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:34 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:35 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket
ERR [Fri May 06 06:03:36 2011]NIC_NL waiting binding to NETLINK_ISCSI socket

then I run /etc/init.d/iscsi status and it shows
iscsid is stopped

log file is getting bigger day by day. I could redirect null value in the log file but this is not a proper solution and earlier the log file was not there so please suggest.

Thanks

secure itheari
 

I had the same problem with a 200m file growing all the time. I am using Centos 5 which appears to start a scsi service by default even if you are not using it. Google found a post in Spanish which gave me the answer (warning; stopping and disabling a service might nix your machine if it does require scsi). Here is google translation of the Spanish post from osdir.com /ml /centos-es /2011-06 /msg00065.html :

12/06/2011 23:47 The Charles Sura wrote:

Hi Jack!

> I was updating multiple virtual servers, and making a
> Check them all, by maintaining this file i found: "*
> BRCM-iscsi.log ** "*
>
> The file is located at: / var / log / BRCM-iscsi.log "
>
> This file is all you have is this message:
>
> ERR [Fri May 06 6:03:24 2011] NIC_NL NETLINK_ISCSI waiting binding to socket

* From CentOS 5.6 The iSCSI service is started by default *, if not
are using iSCSI to connect to a network storage
you can forget about the mistakes:)

To prevent you from coming back you can disable and stop the
services "iscsi" and "iscsid"

# Chkconfig iscsi off
# Chkconfig iscsid off
# Service iscsi stop

Regards,

-
Santi Saez

I experienced the same problem after upgrading from Centos 5.5 to 5.6 on my VPS. I had to disable and stop the iSCSI services like simbo mentioned: