Final Cut Server provides a wealth of logging information beyond what can be accessed from the “Search All Jobs…” option in the Final Cut Server application. Search All Jobs will show the contents of the pxjob table of the PostGreSQL database. However, Final Cut Server stores far more information that can be useful in troubleshooting. For example, information about any jobs that contain the text ldsd, stored or the actual transcode processes can be found in logs in the /Library/Logs/Final Cut Server directory of the Final Cut Server that start with fcsvr_ldsd, fcsvr_stored or pm_transcoder respectively. This folder also has a subdirectory, dbinit, which shows all of the logs pertaining…
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The Final Cut Server Command Line
Final Cut Server has a fairly robust, albeit fairly unsupported command line. The following is a list of some useful commands, along with their paths and functions: The following are in /Library/Application Support/Final Cut Server/Final Cut Server.bundle/Contents/Resources/sbin: fcsvr_run allows you to interact with the database, amongst other things. To interact with the database use psql as the first positional parameter and then pxdb as the second, to identify which database you will interact with. You can then run a select statement in quotations to do a variety of tasks, such as tallying up the number of assets in a database, etc. Once you have certain information you can then use grep…