PMDF System Manager's Guide

If PMDF processing jobs run properly but the message stays in the message queue directory, you can examine the log files to see what is happening. All log files are created in the directory /pmdf/log . Log file name formats for various PMDF processing jobs are shown in Table 36-1.

Table 36-1 PMDF Log Files on UNIX

	File name	Log file contains
	channel_master.log- uniqueid	Output of master program (usually client) for channel
	channel_slave.log- uniqueid	Output of slave program (usually server) for channel
	dispatcher.log- uniqueid	Dispatcher logging, if the Dispatcher DEBUG option has been set
	job_controller.log- uniqueid	Job controller logging, if the Job Controller option DEBUG=1 has been set
	server-name_server.log- uniqueid	Logging for server server-name
	server-name_thread.log- uniqueid	Per thread errors for server-name
+	post.log- uniqueid	Log output for the periodic PMDF delivery job
+	return.log- uniqueid	Log output for the periodic PMDF message bouncer job

Channel log files are not created unless an error occurs or unless debugging output is enabled for the channel with the master_debug channel keyword or slave_debug channel keyword. See Section 2.3.4.86 for more information.

Each new log file is created with a unique id to avoid overwriting an earlier log written by the same channel. You can use the pmdf find utility to aid in finding the desired "version" of a log file. You can purge back older log files using the pmdf purge command.