20020415: A new LDM problem!

>From: "Kevin Polston" <address@hidden>
>Organization: NOAA/NWS
>Keywords: 200204152110.g3FLALa10481 LDM

Kevin,

>I've discovered a "new problem" with LDM over the past few days. It
>seems, for some strange reason, that my LDM just stops running. I don't
>have any idea why this would be but over the past 4 or 5 days its
>happened about 3 or 4 times. One time I was wondering why nothing had
>updated and finally I decided to check to see what LDM processes were
>running and none were. So I restarted LDM.

When this happens, you should check the end of the current LDM log file.
Before you restart this would be ~ldm/logs/ldmd.log.  After you restart,
this would be ~ldm/logs/ldmd.log.1.  (This comment assumed that your
logging is setup and working correctly, of course).

>Then a day or so later it
>happened again. And the last time it happened was late this morning,
>just around noon time or thereabouts. What would be causing that, how
>do I "correct" the problem, or what should I do to prevent this from
>happening?

We need more information on why it stopped.

>Each time I simply restarted LDM and everything seemed to
>start flowing again. So I am open to suggestions or comments.

Again, need input :-)

>We must be getting ready to have some big weather event. When I was
>interning at SELS the old joke was if there are equipment or software
>problems then there must be some "weather" getting ready to happen
>somewhere.  :-)   I guess in this case we can refer to tomorrow.   :-)

What version of Linux are you running?  What we need is the vendor
name and release version.  Also, are you up to date on OS patches
(especially security ones)?

Tom