Re: 19990121: LDM-5.0.6 Problem

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....
 



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> 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/
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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