issues with pmlogger_daily via cron

[Sharif Islam <sharif.islam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to debug an issue with pmlogger (we are using version 3.9.10-1 in SLES 11) while running via cron. 

The cron line is: 

pmlogger_daily -c /var/lib/pcp/config/pmlogger/logger.control 

Here's my ps output:

# ps -eaf|grep pmlogger|grep -v grep

pcp      211906      1  0 15:25 pts/11   00:00:00 pmlogger -P -r -T24h10m -c config.default -m pmlogger_check 20170213.15.25

pcp      218632  66857  0 15:27 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pmlogger -c /var/log/pcp/pmmgr/server1/config.pmlogger -h local: -r -l /var/log/pcp/pmmgr/server1/pmlogger.log -y -T  @Tue Feb 14 01:00:00 2017 /var/log/pcp/pmmgr/server1/archive-20170213.142717

Below is the error received in the email where it looks like the ps output is getting truncated. Is this due to some sort of char width limit in cron? I cannot reproduce this while running via command line. Any suggestion on how to debug this? 

Waiting for new pmlogger to start .. process exited!

Contents of pmlogger output file "/var/log/pcp-storage/pmlogger.log" ...

Log for pmlogger on server1 started Tue Jan 24 00:05:13 2017

pmlogger: Cannot connect to PMCD on host "loca": No route to host

Log finished Tue Jan 24 00:05:13 2017

Sorry, but this is fatal.  No new pmlogger instance has been started.

pmlogger_daily: Error: problems executing pmnewlog for host "local:"

[/var/lib/pcp/config/pmlogger/logger.control:17] ... logging for host "local:" unchanged

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