Celia, I checked thelma all day yesterday and it wasn't behind at all. I just did a ldmadmin watch and it is up to date, ie. Jun 10 15:23:01 pqutil: 5420 19990610152259.934 HDS 492 YRQI75 KWBF 101200 /mNGM Jun 10 15:23:01 pqutil: 1706 19990610152259.953 IDS|DDPLUS 494 SAUS70 KWBC 101521 /pMETAR Jun 10 15:23:01 pqutil: 844 19990610152259.440 IDS|DDPLUS 514 SIMO40 MNUB 101500 Jun 10 15:23:01 pqutil: 325 19990610152259.958 IDS|DDPLUS 495 SABO00 SLLP 101500 /pMETAR Jun 10 15:23:01 pqutil: 1620 19990610152259.960 HDS 496 YRNI75 KWBF 101200 /mNGM Jun 10 15:23:01 pqutil: 1517 19990610152259.444 IDS|DDPLUS 515 UAXX36 KAWN 101500 RRO At this point it's only 3 seconds behind. Not bad Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================