[MPICH] start mpd if it has not started

[Ralph M. Butler]

> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:12:19 -0400
> From: Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju at gmail.com>
> To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [MPICH] start mpd if it has not started
>
> On 8/3/05, Ralph M. Butler <rbutler at mtsu.edu> wrote:
>
> > It depends on your intended usage of course, but you might want to
> > simply use the -d (--daemon) option, e.g.:
> >     $ mpd --daemon
> > In this case, you do not need the & for background because mpd
> > will background itself.  If there is an mpd already running, it
> > will exit silently.  Of course, if there is no other mpd running,
> > but the new one fails for some other reason, that will appear to
> > be silent also.  When running as a daemon, all output goes into
> > the syslogs.
> >
> >
>
> This looks interesting. Could someone tell me where this log file is located?

That depends on your system's configuration.  mpd uses the
syslog facility and logs messages of different priorities.
On a linux system they are likely to be in /var/log/X where X
is syslog* or messages*, etc.  This is configurable in
/etc/syslog.conf for example.