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Re: 20010101: LDM stats, logging

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  • Subject: Re: 20010101: LDM stats, logging
  • Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:20:31 -0700
"Thomas L. Mote" wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > Regarding ldmd.log, from your message I'm confused.  When you do 'touch
> > ldmd.log' in /usr/local/ldm/logs, you should get a 0 length file.  Does
> > that happen?
> 
> I was getting a 0 length. It was being created.
> 
> > The second requirement is that the syslog daemon knows where to write
> > the ldm's messages.  That is, certain entries must be in the file
> > /etc/syslog.conf. Instructions for how to modify this file can be found
> > in http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html under
> > "Configuring the Operating System as root".
> 
> I missed one of the steps, I just noticed. I had doen
> everything except the
>        local0.debug       /usr/local/ldm/logs/ldmd.log
> in /etc/syslog.conf  Must have just skipped over it when I
> was going through the steps.
> 
> It is now logging.

Ah, that *is* the critical line.  (The others are less essential.)  Glad
to hear it's working.

> 
> > Regarding dostats and mailpqstats, I see from the code that mailpqstats
> > wants ldmd.log to be present.  So, if you get the logging working it
> > might fix this problem too.  If it doesn't we'll look further into this
> > problem.  Let me know what happens.
> 
> Let's see if that fixes the mailpqstats.
> 
> ----------------------
> Thomas L. Mote
> address@hidden

Thanks for the update.  And please do let me know what happens with
mailpqstats.

Anne
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