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>From: Rahe Peter J Civ AFIT/ENP <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 200003301804.LAA09915 >Continuing my recently developed troubles with my ldm: > >I've also started seeing long strings of the following in ldmd.log: > >Mar 30 17:52:41 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14682 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:42 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14684 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:42 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14686 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:42 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14688 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:42 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14690 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:42 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14692 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:42 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14694 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:43 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14696 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:43 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14698 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:43 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14700 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:43 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14702 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:43 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14704 exited with status 255 >Mar 30 17:52:44 fujita pqact[14130]: child 14706 exited with status 255 > >How do I find what processes are at fault? >Pete Rahe >Weather Lab Unix System Administrator >Air Force Institute of Technology >Wright-Patterson AFB OH > >??address@hidden > ? (DSN 785-3636 x4646 COMM (937) 255-3636 x4646 > Fax: DSN 785-2921 COMM (937) 255-2921 > > > Pete, You can issua a "kill -USR2" to the pqact process id (eg 14130 in the above) to cycle the log output to verbose, then a second "kill -USR2" to go into debug mode. With the log output in copious detail, you can see what product and action are resulting in a non-zero exit status. If this is a decoder, then you might find further log information in the decoder specific log with the "child process" number. Once you find the error message, issue another "kill -USR2" to pqact to cycle it back to quite mode. Steve Chiswell