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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Tom Priddy wrote: > From: Tom Priddy > > Thanks, Robb. I've made those changes as you directed. Will know in the > next half hour if that work. One thing I didn't do was stop the ldm before > I made the changes. Should I have stopped the ldm first?/ktp Tom, But you should stop/start the ldm now since you made the changes. Also, I think the dostats problem might have been an nfs problem that should go away. dostats was working when I checked it on the login. Robb... > > Robb Kambic wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Tom Priddy wrote: > > > > > From: Tom Priddy > > > > > > Here's a new error that just came to me from superuser: > > > > > > Your "cron" job > > > > > > bin/ldmadmin newlog > > > > > > produced the following output: > > > > > > hupsyslog: kill -HUP 165: Permission denied > > > > Tom, > > > > I didn't login until today because of some urgent NOAAport tasks. Here's > > what I found out: > > > > - Your hupsyslog and rpc.ldmd are no longer running as setuid root. To > > fix this, login as root > > > > % cd ~ldm/ldm-5.0.5/src > > % make install_setuids > > > > That's it, this will fix the hupsyslog problem > > > > - Your /etc/syslog.conf file should be modified so messages don't also go > > to /var/messages and console > > > > Change: > > > > *.err;kern.notice;auth.notice;user.none /dev/console > > *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit;user.none /var/adm/messages > > > > to this: > > > > *.err;kern.notice;auth.notice;user.none;local0.none /dev/console > > *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit;user.none;local0.none > > /var/adm/messages > > > > Remember the white space is a tab > > > > I ran bin/ldmadmin dostats from the command line with no problem. Maybe it > > was related to something else. > > > > > > Is it possible that I've had a hacker???? > > > > It's strange that the hupsyslog and rpc.ldmd where changed from root to > > user ldm. Don't know how that could of happened. > > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > Robb Kambic wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------- Forwarded Message > > > > > > > > > > >To: Unidata Support <address@hidden> > > > > > >From: Tom Priddy <address@hidden> > > > > > >Subject: [Fwd: Output from "cron" command] > > > > > >Organization: . > > > > > >Keywords: 199906041721.LAA22626 > > > > > > > > > > From: Tom Priddy > > > > > > > > > > I keep getting this cron output concerning ldmadmin dostats. > > > > > But I have not change anything since I swhiched to Northern > > > > > Ill Univ's feed. Any ideas?/ktp > > > > > > > > > > Super-User wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Your "cron" job > > > > > > > > > > > > bin/ldmadmin dostats > > > > > > > > > > > > produced the following output: > > > > > > > > > > > > sh: bin/ldmadmin: not found > > > > > > > > > Tom, > > > > > > > > Here's a couple things I would check: > > > > > > > > - If the dostats is running as root, then is LDMHOME in the root path? > > > > If not then change "bin/ldmadmin dostat" to a the absolute path, > > > > similar > > > > to "/usr/local/ldm/bin/ldmadmin dostats" > > > > > > > > - If running as user ldm, is ~ldm/bin in the LDM path ie, echo $PATH > > > > > > > > - Check that the location of perl is correct in the 1st of ldmadmin and > > > > mailpqbinstats. > > > > > > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > ============================================================ > > > > > Tom Priddy address@hidden > > > > > Extension Ag. Meteorologist ph: 606-257-3000ext245 > > > > > Ag. Weather Center fax: 606-257-5671 > > > > > 243 Ag. Engineering Bldg > > > > > Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr. > > > > > University of Kentucky > > > > > Lexington, KY 40546-0276 > > > > > HOMEPAGE http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu > > > > > ============================================================ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > > > > > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > > > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > > > > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric > > > > Research > > > > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > > > > =============================================================================== > > > > > > -- > > > ============================================================ > > > Tom Priddy address@hidden > > > Extension Ag. Meteorologist ph: 606-257-3000ext245 > > > Ag. Weather Center fax: 606-257-5671 > > > 243 Ag. Engineering Bldg > > > Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr. > > > University of Kentucky > > > Lexington, KY 40546-0276 > > > HOMEPAGE http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu > > > ============================================================ > > > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric > > Research > > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > > =============================================================================== > > -- > ============================================================ > Tom Priddy address@hidden > Extension Ag. Meteorologist ph: 606-257-3000ext245 > Ag. Weather Center fax: 606-257-5671 > 243 Ag. Engineering Bldg > Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr. > University of Kentucky > Lexington, KY 40546-0276 > HOMEPAGE http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu > ============================================================ > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================