Re: 19990115: LDM updates needed

Done...

Robb


On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Don Murray wrote:

> 
> Robb-
> 
> I've just installed the LDM 5.0.6 binary for Linux on a system
> and the guys up in UNAVCO did the same.  There are a few fixes
> needed to the docs and ldmadmin script.
> 
> 1) In ldmadmin, the argument to ps for ldmadmin ps needs to be
> ajx.  Otherwise, it does not work.  Here is a diff:
> 
> diff ldmadmin ldmadmin.dist 
> 806c806 
> <         open( IN, "ps ajx |" ) || bad_exit("ps: Cannot open ps");
> ---
> >         open( IN, "ps aj |" ) || bad_exit("ps: Cannot open ps");
> 877c877
> <         $ps_cmd = "ps ajx | grep $gpid_num" ;
> ---
> >         $ps_cmd = "ps aj | grep $gpid_num" ;


> 
> 2) In the online installation docs, there needs to be some instructions
> on creating the /var/data/ldm directory and the /var/data/ldm/logs
> directory.  There are instructions for creating links to these
> (~ldm/data and ~ldm/logs), but it never says these need to exist.
> When one tries to touch the log file, it errs if the directory isn't
> created first.
> 
> 3) In the section on "Make rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog suid root" in
> the binary installation instructions, put in a 
> "cd ~ldm/{version-directory}/bin" before the instructions on
> running chmod, etc or say "In {version-directory}/bin", run
> these commands.
> 
> 4) The guys at UNAVCO read the instructions in the configuring
> as root section (Pre-installation) which says:
> 
> By convention, the LDM home directory should be /usr/local/ldm or /home/ldm. 
> 
> and set the home directory to /home/ldm.  If you do this, then
> the binary version will not work because it is hardcoded to be
> /usr/local/ldm, unless you provide locations of files to rpc.ldmd
> and pqact.  I told them to make a link from /usr/local/ldm to /home/ldm
> and that works, but there is nowhere in the docs that explains what
> to do if you are using a binary version and did not make /usr/local/ldm
> the user ldm's home directory.
> 
> Other than that, the docs for installation are in pretty good shape.
> 
> Don
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