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On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: <address@hidden> > >From: "J. Christopher Clarke" <address@hidden> > >Subject: scriptconfig script > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 199907212029.OAA01389 > > Hello again, > > While looking at you latency web site and after running > "ldmadmin config", it looks like our setup still thinks it's "cyclone.net2..." > While we are still waiting for our feed site to change to our new > IP, the fact that our LDM still thinks of the old name probably means > that our stats we send to you will have the old name, hence the > latency time for the old, but new, machine name. > Chris, From the LDM user home directory, edit ldmadmin script ie. % vi bin/ldmadmin Look for $hostname variable and set it to the new name. > Looking in my manual there is supposed to be a script > called "scriptconfig" that will change this to the new name. However > for the life of me, I can't find it anywhere in our version directories. > The scriptconfig was only sent out with the binary releases, it's located in the {ldm-version}/bin directory. > First, do you have any idea where this script might have gone? > We have three version still on line (5.0, 5.0.2 and 5.0.8) and none > seem to have this script. > > Second, does it really matter. You see the latency, albeit under > the old name, and we get our data... > It's better to keep things current because otherwise it make new configuration harder. I'm sure you will find the hostname in the bin/ldmadmin script. > I promise after I get all this working again (and the GEMPAK which > I never did get installed...) I won't bother you anymore. :) > No problem. Robb.... > Thanks for all the help, > > Chris > > _____________________________________________________ > > J. Christopher Clarke address@hidden > Assistant Professor > Northeast Louisiana University > Dept. of Geosciences > _____________________________________________________ > > "There is such a high wind blowing, I won't get to sleep tonight. > I think that warm wind feels alright." > _____________________________________________________ > > > > ------- 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/ ===============================================================================