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Phil, > Full Name: Philip Birnie > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Ohio State University > Package Version: 6.6.5 > Operating System: Linux RHEL5 > Hardware: > Description of problem: Sorry to bother you guys -- I know you are busy. No worries. This is our job. > I checked out the archives but was unable to find a suitable answer. > Basically, our system was hacked a few days ago, so I am working on > rebuilding our machine. I successfully installed the LDM, but receive the > error: > [ldm@twister ~]$ ldmadmin start > The product-queue is OK. > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf is syntactically correct > Starting the LDM server... > Oct 8 02:31:29 UTC twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu : start_ldm: Server not started. > > whenever we start the server. > I turned off our firewall (before I turned it off, I could get the LDM to > start, but we obviously were not receiving data). Here is an output of our > ldmd.log: > > Oct 08 02:29:29 twister rpc.ldmd[3768] NOTE: Starting Up (version: 6.6.5; > built: Oct 7 2008 14:19:00) > Oct 08 02:29:29 twister rpc.ldmd[3768] NOTE: Using local address 0.0.0.0:388 > *** Something about this doesn't seem correct *** > Oct 08 02:29:29 twister rpc.ldmd[3768] NOTE: Terminating process group The log message about using local address "0.0.0.0:388" is OK. It means that the LDM server will listen on port 388 on all available interfaces. The fact that the top-level LDM process terminated within one second of starting indicates a severe problem. I suggest running the LDM in interactive mode to see what the problem might be. Interactive mode is obtained via the option "-l-". For example $HOME/bin/rpc.ldmd -vl- $HOME/etc/ldmd.conf The process can be terminated via a control-C. Let me know what you find. > Thanks for your help! > > - Phil Birnie > The Ohio State University. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RLJ-543699 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: On Hold