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Carl Sinclair wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Unidata Support wrote: > > > > > > I've got LDM 5.1.4 loaded on my Solaris 8 Ultra 1, and pqbinstats does > > > not produce any stats files. I'm receiving data from a machine that is > > > also running pqbinstats. If I use the -v flag, I get messages from > > > pqbinstats in the ldmd.log, but still no stats files. Here is the entry > > > line in the ldmd.conf file: > > > > > > exec "pqbinstats -q /home/ldm/data/ldm.pq" > > > > > > That is the correct location for the queue. The permissions on the logs > > > directory is 755. I don't know what else to look for. > >> > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > > > Carl, > > > > Your inclusion of a path to the queue leads me to wonder if your > > /usr/local is not the same as your /home - is it? Are stats files being > > written to /usr/local/ldm/logs, by chance? This is where they would go > > by default if you built from source and LDMHOME was set to > > /usr/local/ldm. I'm guessing that they are being written somewhere, > > otherwise I'd expect that you would get a complaint in the log file. > > > > Regardless, try adding the -d option to the invocation of pqbinstats. > > Also, you could try putting it in debug mode with the -x option to see > > if it reports anything useful. See the man page for more information. > > > > Anne > > > > Anne, > > The /usr/local/ldm is a symbolic link to /home/ldm, so there shouldn't > be a problem there. I did compile it, but /home/ldm was what I used for > LDMHOME. I used the -x flag, and here's what I"m seeing in the > ldmd.log: > > Jul 12 14:53:33 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGALRM > Jul 12 14:53:33 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:53:48 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGALRM > Jul 12 14:53:48 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:53:48 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:53:48 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0015 sec > Jul 12 14:53:48 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0027 sec > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0014 sec > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0017 sec > Jul 12 14:53:49 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:54:04 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGALRM > Jul 12 14:54:04 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGALRM > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0015 sec > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0016 sec > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: SIGCONT > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: Delay: 0.0015 sec > Jul 12 14:54:19 monsoon pqbinstats[8460]: End of Queue > > Still no stats files. > > -- > _______________________ > Carl Sinclair > CAPS Research Associate > (405)325-5938 Carl, This seems to indicate that pqbinstats is not having problems, but I don't know where your stats files are being written. Have you searched for *.stats? Also, have you tried adding the -d option to the command invocation? Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************