[MPICH] start mpd if it has not started

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi]

On 8/3/05, Ralph M. Butler <rbutler at mtsu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 

Thanks for the reply. On my system (Debian, sid) it is stored in
/var/log/syslog .

raju


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