20000330: Product trouble Pt II

>From: Rahe Peter J Civ AFIT/ENP <address@hidden>
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>Keywords: 200003301804.LAA09915

>Continuing my recently developed troubles with my ldm:
>
>I've also started seeing long strings of the following in ldmd.log:
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>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
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>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
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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