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"Patrick S. Market" wrote:
> Anne:
>
> Thanks for the info. Now I have a new problem. I stopped the LDM
> so that I might change the pqact.conf file (which is still not quite right,
> but that's another matter). when I went through the
>
> ldmadmin mkqueue
> ldmadmin start
>
> process, I got the message
>
> starting the LDM server...
>
> afterwhich the system just proceeded to sit there, with both the cpu and
> disk activity icons showing almost no activity. eventually, it exited
> with a message (which, of course, I failed to copy and paste somewhere).
>
> Any ideas? I am repeating the process now in hopes of generating the exit
> message.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pat
Hi Pat,
I'm guessing but perhaps there was a previous abnormal termination so that the
lock and pid files weren't released properly. I would suggest starting from
scratch:
ldmadmin stop
ldmadmin clean // gets rid of lock files
ldmadmin delqueue // delete the queue
ldmadmin mkqueue // make a new queue
ldmadmin start
Also, if everything's running correctly you don't need to stop the ldm to have
it reread pqact.conf. Instead, do:
ldmadmin pqactHUP
Also, take a look at the log. You can use:
ldmadmin tail
to see the last few lines of the log. I think that may only output the last
10 lines. If you want to see, say, the last 40 lines of the log, do:
tail -n 40 ~ldm/logs/ldmd.log
If this doesn't help, be sure to send me any error messages or relevant log
messages.
Anne
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