From: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:42:23 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: INSTALL.Linux: Document "ovs-vsctl init" step to installation.
X-Git-Tag: v1.0.0~236
X-Git-Url: http://git.onelab.eu/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=332b4e09868df70ddad6bb7fc843c69fac2235d5;p=sliver-openvswitch.git

INSTALL.Linux: Document "ovs-vsctl init" step to installation.

If the database is not initialized then other programs will complain.

Reported-by: Jeongkeun Lee <jklee@hp.com>
---

diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux
index 911558177..31bc3e08d 100644
--- a/INSTALL.Linux
+++ b/INSTALL.Linux
@@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ listen on a Unix domain socket, e.g.:
 
       % ovsdb-server /etc/ovs-vswitchd.conf.db --remote=punix:/var/run/ovsdb-server
 
+Then initialize the database with "ovs-vsctl init".  This is only
+necessary the first time after you create the database with
+ovsdb-tool (but running it at any time is harmless):
+
+      % ovs-vsctl init
+
 Then start the main Open vSwitch daemon, telling it to connect to the
 same Unix domain socket: