Error running keepalived

[lvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi,

I am hoping someone else has encountered this problem and solved it before.

On 4 seperate installs of RedHat 7.3 (3 standard and 1 with LVS configured 
and running) when keepalived is started the following error apears

Keepalived: Watchdog: Error connecting /tmp/.vrrp wdog socket

The socket is created  
#ls -la /tmp
srwx------    1 root     root            0 Sep  2 14:51 .healthcheckers
srwx------    1 root     root            0 Sep  2 14:16 .vrrp

Using Keepalived v1.1.0 (20/07, 2003)

Config as follows:

vrrp_sync_group VG1 {
   VI_1
}
vrrp_instance VI_1 {
        state MASTER
        interface eth0
        virtual_router_id 51
        priority 150
        advert_int 1
        authentication {
                auth_type AH
                auth_pass keep@live
        }
        virtual_ipaddress {
                192.168.0.8
        }
}

Any help on this issue would be much appreciated.

TIA