Linux usleep: command not found, Why?

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When I was tring to restart dovecot service, it returns:

Stopping Dovecot Imap: /etc/init.d/functions: line 274: usleep: command not found

PS. I'm using centOS 5.2

Still have this problem， Please help.

Aleksandar Ivanisevic · Answer 1 · 2010-05-11 04:27:59Z

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as Tcampbell already wrote it should be in initscripts

you can type

ls -al /bin/usleep
rpm -qV initscripts

to see if something happened with your usleep

if its not there i would suspect that there is a serious disk error or the machine has been broken into

answered May 11 '10 at 4:27

	ls: /bin/usleep: No such file or directory missing /bin/usleep ..5....T c /etc/inittab S.5....T c /etc/rc.d/rc.local – liuxingruo May 11 '10 at 7:26
	yup, looks like someone or something manually removed your /bin/usleep you can fix it by reinstalling (yum reinstall initscripts) but before that you should investigate how and why that happened – Aleksandar Ivanisevic May 11 '10 at 8:38
	you can also run rpm -qaV and go through the output to see if anything else is missing or suspiciously changed – Aleksandar Ivanisevic May 11 '10 at 8:39
	Problem solved, thanks – liuxingruo May 11 '10 at 13:12

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TCampbell · Answer 2 · 2010-05-10 18:02:23Z

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What distribution? On my RHEL 5 system, usleep is part of the initscripts RPM.

answered May 10 '10 at 18:02

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