Starting multipathd daemon fails with "cannot open /dev/console for output : No such device"
Issue
The multipath-daemon does not get started, when starting it manually the following output is generated:
# service multipathd start
Starting multipathd daemon: cannot open /dev/console for output : No such device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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