[ldm-users] Feature request for LDM

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Steve Emmerson wrote:

> Hi Gilbert,

Hi Steve,

> Is it insufficient, inconvenient, or just hard to remember to execute the 
> command
>
>    pqact -vl - -q /dev/null pathname

Probably, yes, and absolutely. :-)

> when you modify file "pathname"?
>
> I could modify the file "ldmadmin-pl.conf" to create a variable that 
> contained the pathnames of all the "pqact" configuration-files.  The 
> components of this variable could then be checked by the "ldmadmin 
> pqactcheck" command.  The problem is that there is no guarantee that the 
> variable will contain all the files.
>
> I think a better solution would be for the ldmadmin script to extract the 
> pathnames of the "pqact" configuration-files from the LDM 
> configuration-file.  I'll think about it.

I'm thinking along these lines. Can you modify the ldmadmin program to do 
this:

$ldmadmin pqactcheck

/path/pqact.conf: no errors found
/path/pqact.mcidasA: no errors found
/path/pqact.mcidasb: no errors found
/path/pqact.gempak: no errors found
/path/pqact.level2: error found on line 142 (or whatever floats your boat)

When you do an ldmadmin pqactHUP, it automagically re-reads all of them. I 
thought it would be not very difficult to make it check to see if 
active pqact files (based on process ID checking) have a problem.
You should know the path from $ldmhome of all the active pqact files.
And you should know the active pqact files from ldmd.conf, as well as from 
doing a "ps -ax grep pqact" or something similar.

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