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>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200206131717.g5DHH1J17911 >Hi folks, >I'm running ldm 5.1.2 for our NNEXRAD ingest on a >Compaq Alpha DS20E. I just upgraded the OS from >5.0A to 5.1A and now the ~ldm/logs/ldmd.log is >neither being initialized nor written too. Was >there a system executable that got moved between >the OS versions? The ldm config and install location >did not change. I looked in ~/bin/ldmadmin for >suspicious system file references and didn't >see anything threatening. Any ideas? >Thanks, -Neil >PS: I AM getting data ingest and correct file > output as before (as far as I can tell). > >--- >Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr. address@hidden >Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ. 979/845-6272 > > Neil, LDM logging is done through the local0 service, Your entries in /etc/syslog.conf may have been overwritten by your OS upgrade. See the LDM installation instructions for configuring logging though syslog.conf. Steve Chiswell