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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >cc: address@hidden > >From: Erick Lorenz (address@hidden) <address@hidden> > >Subject: Installing LDM on OSF/1 > >Organization: UC Davis > >Keywords: 199909300125.TAA03108 LDM DEC OSF/1 TRU64 > > Greetings: > > I am trying to install the LDM on ATM25, a DEC Alpha 3000 running > OSF/1 4.0F or as they like to call it TRU64 Unix 4.0F. > > I used the binary install and everything seemed to go well until > I tried to start it up. After "ldmadmin start" it just hangs. > > I see in the ldmd.conf that there is a command to try which I > did and then tried "ldmadmin start" again but it still hangs. > > Before I try commenting out all the lines in ldmd.conf I want to know: Erick, There shouldn't be that many lines in ldmd.conf that are uncommented, all the lines starting with a # are comments. Try commenting out the exec pqact line as a starting point, many times that's the culprit. > > 1. One of the messages in the ldmd.log file is that typhoon rejected > my request. Is this enough to make it hang? > Noop > 2. I sent the required information to address@hidden. > Does this constitute a request for access by a given client or > is this just a way to find out who to use as a server? Actually ucdavis already has a server ucla. The server machine at ucla needs to have an allow statement in the ldmd.conf added so your new machine can be allowed to receive data. That's why the a message was sent so you could contact Devin Kramer. > > 3. I installed ldm in /usr/local/ldm and the ldmadmin file > defines $ldmhome as /usr/local/ldm but several error messages > in the ldmd.log file refer to not being able to find various > files in the path /local/ldm/.... > > I eliminated some of these messages by creating a symbolic link > /local --> /usr/local > but I think that is a kludge. > You installed the ldm in the correct directory /usr/local/ldm, it might be a link problem when I build the binary here. The linking is done on many systems that have hard coded directory problem, I wouldn't worry about it. Robb... > Thank you > > Erick Lorenz, LAWR, UCDavis > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================