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Re: HELP!

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  • Subject: Re: HELP!
  • Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 13:28:05 -0700
"Eric W. Ribble" wrote:
> 
> Anne -
> 
> Well, it's fixed.  The problem --- a 0-byte ldmd.conf file.  How it became
> 0-bytes is an absolute mystery!  It turns out that right when we stopped
> getting data around 11:30 am, the ldmd.conf file was modified!!!
> 
> -rw-rw-r--   1 ldm  ldm      0 Jan  5 11:30 ldmd.conf
> 
> Could it be that something went terribly wrong and the queue got corrupted
> leading to somehow corrupting the ldmd.conf file???  I'm sure that has about
> as much chance of happening as finding out who really won the election in
> Florida!!!  :)

That is bizarre.  I doubt that a corrupt queue did that...  If you find
out how this happened please let me know.  Bad disk? 

> 
> I just received your latest email, and it turns out I tried most of your
> suggestions prior to emailing you.  I guess this means I learned something
> while I attended the workshop, which is of course a good thing!
> 

GREAT!  I'm happy to hear this.

> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.  I think I can honestly say I feel
> a lot more comfortable debugging the LDM now that this has happened.  :-)
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> Eric
> 
> --
> Eric W. Ribble
> Purdue University
> Mesoscale Convection and Tornado Research Group (MCT)
> address@hidden
> http://www.eas.purdue.edu/~eribble

You're welcome.  Clearly you did it yourself.  As the workshop
instructor, this make me happy!  Yes, experience like this is really
valuable, even though we would rather not have to go through it.  (Kind
of like going the dentist?)

Enjoy your data!

Anne
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