Thanks to Robert Weirick and Marcvo Benton for their answers.
Patch Kit 6 for 4.0f indeed broke binlogd so that binary.errorlog
can't be read by DECevent or Compaq Analyze. A patch is available
upon request from your support rep and the patch should also
make it into patch kit 7 which will be released soon.
Dirk Hufnagel
Updated message :
>
> I reverted my binary.errorlog back to the old version and
> dia can read the file up to the point where I installed
> patch kit 6. For the first event with patchkit 6 installed
> dia gives me a parsing error and only displays events
> previous to this event. I checked my patch kit install
> logs and there was indeed a patch for binlogd installed.
>
> So, does that mean that this new binlogd is incompatible
> with DecEvent 3.3 ? Any hope for a patch/workaround ?
>
> Dirk Hufnagel
>
>
> Original message:
>>
>> I just installed dia on a PWS600au running Tru64 4.0f PK6
>> and dia can't read the binary errorlog. Here is the output :
>>
>> DECevent V3.3
>> Event file parsing error: event 0 invalid event header type
>>
>> I must add that I "cleaned up" binary.errorlog before
>> installing dia, eg. I moved it and sent the binlogd
>> daemon a HUP. Dia didn't complain about the new empty
>> binary.errorlog but after putting in a test entry with
>> /usr/bin/logger, dia gives me the above error.
>>
>> uerf can read binary.errorlog just fine.
>> How can I fix this ?
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 13 2001 - 00:11:25 NZDT