20000124: LDM, pqact.conf and more!

>From: "David Delgado" <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
>Keywords: 200001241716.KAA06989 LDM

David,

>There are several issues that I must ask about LDM. This may be a very
>rudamentary question but a question none-the-less.
>
>First issue
>-----------
>
>When I log in as LDM (ownership ldm.unidata) and type
>
>    $ ldmadmin start
>
>I get the following message:
>
>    starting the LDM server...
>    hupsyslog: kill -HUP 263: Permission denied
>    the LDM server has been started

This is most likely telling us that the routine hupsyslog does not have
the SUID bit set, meaning that it does not run as 'root'.  What hupsyslog
does is send a HUP signal to the syslogd process so that the LDM log
files can be rotated.  Since only 'root' can do this, hupsyslog has to
have the appropriate permissions set _by root_ during an LDM installation.
This is discussed in:

Unidata Homepage:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
  LDM
  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm

    LDM Binary Installation Check List 
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmBinaryInstallList.html
      Make rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog suid root 

    or

    LDM Source Installation Check List 
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmSourceInstallList.html
      Compile the distribution
      

>So, the service is starting (I can watch data come in using "ldmadmin
>watch") but logging isn't working.

If no logging is working, then you may be having a problem with syslogd.
If hupsyslog does have SUID capability, then you should kill syslogd
as 'root' and start another invocation.

>Can you provide a hint on where to find where permissions are wrong?

See above.

>Second issue
>------------
>I understand the importance of understanding the documentation of
>pqact.conf. We've needed to adjust settings times in the past. For the time
>being, is there a default pqact.conf file that we can use to receive all of
>the usual data products?

I can make the one we use available to you, but given how configurable
ingestion is, you might have to do a lot of work on it.

>Just so you know...I attempted the upgrade of the OS and was successful. I
>was also semi-successful in upgrading McIDAS and LDM on mcidas.uww.edu.

Semi-successful?  What exactly did not go well?

>Unfortuantely, that did not cahnge our situation at all. The same errors
>from before the upgrade were evidant after the upgrade and a step backwards
>was taken. Instead of sending inconsistant data for no more than 24 hours we
>weren't sending data to our workstation at all.

So, you are using one machine to relay data to another?  I searched our
tracking system under LDM and IDD and see that the last inquiry from
you was in November.  Are these the problems you are referring to?

>Thanks in advance.

Please let me know exactly what problems you are having so we can get
you running correctly.

Tom Yoksas