Failed to read ecd file <filename.ecd>

Greetings,

We have dual roots running on AIX 6.1 TL7:  CIS5.7.2 and CIS5.8.5.

We have observed that error message in the process logs.  Those “ecd”

files relate to the SMAT gui.   The exact internal reason why the engine

complains eludes us.   However, with the SMAT when you use it and set your options they are saved in an “ecd” file.

For 5.8.5 they may be of importance for using the SMAT indexing search tool in the Global Monitor 5.0 – which we have implemented for some of our sites (recall we are running dual roots).  Just a guess here.

We have a cron (batch) job that just cleans these up as the SMAT tool scatters them all over the place – your directory currency determines where it stashes these “ecd” files.

Bottom Line:  a nuisance error message of (as far as we know) of no significance.

Enjoy.

Hi,

I see this Error everytime I start a thread for the very first time. My guess is that the ecd file ist only created after the first message is logged to the thread’s SMAT.

I’ve so far ignored the Error since it doesn’t seem to cause any trouble and only appears on the very first startup of each thread.

I guess when they created the dependency checks, they just missed the point that a non-existing ecd-file is perfectly normal, if a thread never smatted anything in his life.

Best wishes

Simone

Make sure the temp folder in integrator is set to hci and staff. I had a similar issue when this folder only had root authorization.