Re: 19991124: ldmfail problem fixed

On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Unidata Support wrote:

> >To: address@hidden
> >From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden>
> >Subject: ldmfail problem fixed
> >Organization: .
> >Keywords: 199911242050.NAA00340
> 
> Robb,
> 
> Since I'm not a perl programmer, it took a little while for me to figure
> out what was going on.  First, the new ldmfail in version 5.0.8 doesn't

Clint,

For not being a perl programmer, you did a great job debugging.

> allow REQUEST lines to span multiple lines (this was allowed in v. 5.0.5
> and earlier), 

I will put back in the functionality to have request lines span over
multiple lines.

so it was not finding either the $primary or the $failover
> strings in a REQUEST line, so both $primary_flg and $failover_flg were
> still set to 0.  Then, in the test to see if the search had failed, you had
> 
> # if we did not have a match, then we have big problems# if we did not have a 
> match, then we have big problems
> if(! ( $primary_flg || $failover ) ) {
>         output("No primary or failover found in $etcdir/ldmd.conf") ;
>         exit 1 ;
> 
> It should read
> 
> if(! ( $primary_flg || $failover_flg ) ) {
>                                 ^^^^
>     
Looks like a bad typo type of bug.

Thanks,
Robb...


    output("No primary or failover found in $etcdir/ldmd.conf") ;
>         exit 1 ;
>         
> Anyway, it seems to be working now.
> 
> Clint
> 
> ====================================================================
> Clinton M. Rowe
> Associate Professor 
> Meteorology/Climatology Program                  phone:(402)472-1946
> Department of Geosciences                          fax:(402)472-4917
> University of Nebraska-Lincoln                  address@hidden
> 

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