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Hi Tom, I hope that things are going well for you... I am writing to ask you to look into the name cacimbo is sending back to us in its real time statistics reporting. Currently, cacimbo is identifying itself as: cacimboggyugaedu instead of: cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu In our real time statistics page: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idd/rtstats/siteindex.php The name that is reported back is defined in the file ~ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf as follows: chop($hostname = `uname -n`); # $hostname = "your.hostname.here"; If the machine's hostname is fully defined, then the `uname -n` option is what needs to be used. If it is not, or if it is somehow defined incorrectly, the LDM site administrator needs to comment out the first line and uncomment and modify the second: # chop($hostname = `uname -n`); $hostname = "cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu"; Can you check to see if cacimbo's hostname is fully and correctly defined as follows: <as 'ldm'> uname -n If it is not, please do the following: - comment out the 'chop' line from ~ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf - uncomment the $hostname line - set the hostname value to cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu so that the line looks like: $hostname = "cacimbo.ggy.uga.edu"; - stop and restart your LDM using: ldmadmin restart Given the strange name being used in real time statistics reports, I am guessing that $hostname was incorrectly defined in ~ldm/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf, but there is always the possibility that the fully qualified hostname is set incorrectly in the OS. Thanks in advance for helping us out! Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ****************************************************************************