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On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >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 > > ==================================================================== > 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 > > > ------- 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/ ===============================================================================