It's definitely running:
ldm@chicago-il-1:~$ ps aux | grep pqact
ldm 32737 0.3 0.3 8046468 50636 ? S 16:53 0:01 pqact -v
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Karen Cooper - NOAA Affiliate <
karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Assuming that regular ldm logging is working it should not log anywhere
> else.
>
> If you are seeing the data in your queue, but nothing new on disk (no
> changes to df -k) then I would question if pqact is running.
>
> pqact in verbose mode should be loggin each item that goes through your
> queue -- even if it is ignoring it.
>
> Another thing to check is to see is pqact is actually running and not
> crashing. If you do a ps (or run top) can you see it?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Blair Trosper <
> blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Absolute paths were a no go, and putting verbose mode into:
>> EXEC "pqact -v"
>>
>> ...seems to yield no extra info. Or, if it is, it's putting it somewhere
>> besides ldmd.log
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:52 PM, donna Cote <d-cote@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Blair, from my experience, I've made explicit directory paths in my
>>> pqacts.
>>>
>>> I suggest looking for a /mnt/data or /nexrad2 directory
>>>
>>> Just a thought,
>>> Donna
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/15/13 4:45 PM, Blair Trosper wrote:
>>>
>>>> My which I mean it only adds the contents of "ldmadmin watch" to the
>>>> ldmd.log, which doesn't really help me.
>>>>
>>>> I used "ldmadmin restart -v", did you mean something else? Perhaps I
>>>> misunderstood. :/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Karen Cooper - NOAA Affiliate
>>>> <karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx <mailto:karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx>**> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Try putting pqact into verbose mode.
>>>>
>>>> exec "pqact -v"
>>>>
>>>> and then restart ldm. It should tell you everything pqact is doing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Blair Trosper
>>>> <blair.trosper@**updraftnetworks.com<blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> <mailto:blair.trosper@**updraftnetworks.com<blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It's enabled and not commented.
>>>>
>>>> Putting ldm into verbose mode didn't seem to yield anything
>>>> additional in the log files. In fact, it's very UNdescriptive .
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Karen Cooper - NOAA Affiliate
>>>> <karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx <mailto:karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx>**> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And of course what I really meant was the exec line in your
>>>> ldmd.conf...
>>>>
>>>> exec "pqact "
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Karen Cooper - NOAA
>>>> Affiliate <karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:karen.cooper@xxxxxxxx>**> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Blair,
>>>>
>>>> First a sanity check. -- Are you sure that pqact is
>>>> uncommented in your ldmadmin.pl <http://ldmadmin.pl>?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can set pqact to verbose mode and then you should
>>>> see what it's trying to do, as it will log to your
>>>> ldmd.log files. I often use this when I'm testing out
>>>> new pqact entries that aren't working as I expect.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Blair Trosper
>>>>
>>>> <blair.trosper@**updraftnetworks.com<blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> <mailto:blair.trosper@**updraftnetworks.com<blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm receiving several feeds as proven by ldmadmin
>>>> watch...and the logs all look fine. However, my
>>>> data isn't being saved to disk.
>>>>
>>>> From *registry.xml*:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <pqact>
>>>>
>>>> <config-path>/mnt/data/ldm/**
>>>> etc/pqact.conf</config-path>
>>>>
>>>> <datadir-path>/mnt/data/ldm/**
>>>> var/data</datadir-path>
>>>> </pqact>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From */mnt/data/ldm/etc/pqact.conf***:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # L2 data
>>>> NEXRAD2
>>>> ^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9]{8})([**
>>>> 0-9]{4})[0-9]{2}/([0-9]{1,4}).***/[SI]
>>>> FILE nexrad2/\1/\1_\2-\3.part
>>>> NEXRAD2
>>>> ^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9]{8})([**
>>>> 0-9]{4})[0-9]{2}/([0-9]{1,4}).***/E
>>>> FILE -close nexrad2/\1/\1_\2-\3.part
>>>> (snip)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However, following those two things, here's a
>>>> directory listing of */mnt/data/ldm/var/data*:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ldm@chicago-il-1:~/data$ ls -lsha
>>>> total 8.0K
>>>> 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 ldm ldm 4.0K Jul 15 16:09 .
>>>> 4.0K drwxr-xr-x 5 ldm ldm 4.0K Jul 13 23:19 ..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nothing. The same is true of other feeds which
>>>> should be stashed in other subdirectories.
>>>>
>>>> The bandwidth is certainly registering, which I have
>>>> verified at the router, so I'm definitely receiving
>>>> the data...so...
>>>>
>>>> Where are my files going? Any way to track this
>>>> down?
>>>>
>>>> (I've also done "du -ksh" from the home directory of
>>>> the ldm user over the last few hours, and it's not
>>>> increasing. Definitely nothing being written to
>>>> hard disk. And still no errors in the LDM or system
>>>> logs.)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Blair Trosper
>>>> Weather Data / Updraft Networks
>>>>
>>>> blair.trosper@updraftnetworks.**com<blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> <mailto:blair.trosper@updraft.**us<blair.trosper@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> >
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>>>>
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