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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > >To: address@hidden > >From: Jim Koermer <address@hidden> > >Subject: LDM-5.0.6 Problem > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 199901211542.IAA22899 > > I have just finished installing LDM-5.0.6 on a FreeBSD machine. I'm > feeding it with another of my machines. Data seems to be ingesting okay, > but I can't seem to generate an ldmd.log, no matter what I have tried. > Any ideas on what might be my problem? > > Jim Jim, There is no /etc/syslog.pid file on BSD, so one has to use the killall command. I would first test it from the command line aw user root. % /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd If that works, then create a new hupsyslog in the bin directory by making a hupsyslog shell script. #! /bin/sh # # Script to send a SIGHUP to syslog(8), causing it to close and reopen # all log files. # NB: Must be run by root or the killall(1) will fail; # /usr/bin/killall -HUP syslogd || exit 1 Then execute these commands as root to make the correct permissions: % chmod 550 hupsyslog % chown root hupsyslog % chmod u+srwx,g+rwx,o+rx hupsyslog If syslogd doesn't get a HUP, then it doesn't know about the ldmd.log file. For sanity sake, you did edit syslog.conf and add local0.debug etc and did a touch on the ldmd.log file. Review at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html#s8 Robb.... > -- > James P. Koermer E-Mail: address@hidden > Professor of Meteorology Office Phone: (603)535-2325 > Chair, Natural Science Department Office Fax: (603)535-2723 > Plymouth State College WWW: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ > Plymouth, NH 03264 > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================