Hi Gilbert,
re:
> I am seeing this in /var/log/messages:
>
> Sep 23 17:18:01 weather xinetd[2632]: EXIT: mcidas status=0 pid=23953
> duration=0(sec)
>
> Every minute with a process happening. This is normal and expected,
Interesting. I had never looked for these messages in /var/log/messages...
> but
> I'd rather put it in a file in /home/ldm/logs. How can I do this?
A quick check of the man page for xinetd on weather shows that there is
a flag that should be able to be used to specify where logging will
occur:
-filelog logfile
xinetd-produced messages will be placed in the specified file.
Messages are always appended to the file. If the file does
not exist, it will be created. This option is ineffective in
debug mode since all relevant messages are sent to the termi-
nal.
I would assume that one would have to modify the /etc/init.d/xinetd script
to include the use of the '-filelog' flag.
Please remember that the log file that will be written will likely be
owned by 'root'. This may or may not cause problems for you down the road.
> Thanks and take care. Oh, Weather.admin.niu.edu was down this past
> Friday-Saturday when a storm blew through here and took out the power,
> resulting in scrambled hard drive files. After a reboot and an
> automatic/automagic file system check, all is well now.
OK, thanks for the heads-up.
Cheers,
Tom
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Ticket ID: BUT-351432
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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