PMDF System Manager's Guide

If batch or Process Symbiont jobs are submitted and execute 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 33-1.

Table 33-1 PMDF Log Files on O pen VMS

File name	Log file contains
channel-name_master.log	Output of master program (usually client) for channel-name
channel-name_slave.log	Output of slave program (usually server) for channel-name
dispatcher.log	Dispatcher logging if the Dispatcher DEBUG option has been set
server-name_server.log	Server process errors for server-name
server-name_thread.log	Per thread errors for server-name
task_server_ procsmb-queue.log	Errors encountered by the procsmb-queue Process Symbiont queue
post.log	Log output for the periodic PMDF delivery job
return.log	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 2.3.4.85 for more information. Server log files are created when a new server process is created; if no error occurs they will contain merely normal OpenVMS login/out type information. Process Symbiont log files are created when a Process Symbiont queue is started; if no error occurs they will contain merely normal OpenVMS login/out information.

Note that version limits must not be set on files in the PMDF_ROOT: tree and particularly must not be set on files in the PMDF_LOG: directory. PMDF will take care of purging back old versions of log files itself, as one of its periodic housekeeping tasks, so there is no need for version limits---and version limits will cause a variety of problems.