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Ward and Ka Kit, This is a status report about the state of the LDM install and the general status of halo. The LDM is installed and receiving data. Here's what was done: - crontab configurated for the purge of LDM files, sending LDM statistics, etc - .cshrc and .login files configured so vi, more, etc will work - pqact.conf file configured, directory paths were incorrect - etc/scour.conf file configured, purges LDM old files - LDM queue rebuilt LDM problems still occurring: - ldmadmin stop takes a long time because of network, possible OS problems - reports/models missing because of network bandwidth not large enough to receive all the data requested Our system admin checked halo, here's what he said: - network is flaky, traceroute shows multiple interfaces - no patches install on OS, machine is prime candidate for breakin - Recommendations: - reduce the amount of data requested to halo - install OS patches ASAP - contact your system admin or your ISP about the network problems Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================