Re: 19991230: LDM weirdness at UNL

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Unidata Support wrote:

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> >To: address@hidden
> >From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden>
> >Subject: LDM weirdness
> >Organization: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
> >Keywords: 199912302234.PAA07071 LDM home directory
> 
> Happy New Year (almost!)
> 
> Since I see from the flurry of e-mails about the Y@K problem with pqact
> that there is activity at Unidata right up to the end of the year (as I 
> would expect!), I thought I'd tell you about my problem with the LDM today.
> 
> For a variety of reasons (mainly rumming out of space on /usr/local), I 
> decided
> to move the LDM installation to another directory on chinook, namely 
> /apps/ldm.
> Figuring that this would be a simple and straightforward task, I decided to 
> tackle it on the last business day of my year.  I moved the directories and 
> ran bin/scriptconfig to specify LDMHOME.  Tried to star the LDM and kept
> getting messages that pqbinstats couldn't find /usr/local/ldm/logs and
> pqact couldn't fing /usr/local/ldm/data.  After changing these strind to
> the new directory in every script I could possibly find, I was unable to 
> affect
> any change -- I still got these messages and the LDM wouldn't start.
> Finally, in desparation, I created a symbolic link from /usr/local/ldm to 
> /apps/ldm which seems to do the trick.
> 
> My question is: does not /usr/local/ldm as LDM's home directory constitute a
> "non-standard installation setup" that requires me to install from source?

Clint,

No that is the correct installation.  When the LDM was first distributed,
it was designated to be built in /usr/local/ldm.  But as times changed,
other directories were used. So when I build the binaries, I use
/usr/local/ldm as the directory for backward compatiability, so the ldm
can find the correct directories. To to make things work, just make the
link and everything will work correctly, ie

% ln -s /apps/ldm /usr/local/ldm

Robb...

> 
> (I'm guessing "YES" and am planning to come in Sunday to fix it propoerly)
> 
> Thanks, and enjoy the first weekend of the upcoming last year of the 
> millenium!
> 
> Clint
> 
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> 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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Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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