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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Robert Leche wrote: > Hello Robb, > Is there a way to automatically switch-over or fail-over from one source > of ingestion to another source. Previously we combined data from two > sites. The combined file size was manageable, but using this trick with > the NOAA port would result in file sizes that would tax system > resources. If the answer is yes, could you provide a clipit of > configuration code to do so. Robert, There's a script called ldmfail that failover to a different source when the first source is unavailable. There's a man page on it. Maybe you could modify it to suit your needs. Robb... > > Thanks > > Bob Leche > address@hidden > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================