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> Hi Allan, > > > I've experienced a problem using LDM and was wondering if you might have > > any insight or comments about how to resolve, or identify the problem. > > I'm using LDM (v 5.0.8) to distribute files to three receivers within > > the NWS WAN. We recently experienced a problem where one of the three > > systems stopped receiving files while the other two system continued to > > receive files. The affected system could ping, but not ldmping, our > > system. We could ping and ldmping their system. This condition > > persisted even after they restarted their LDM. After we stopped and > > started LDM at our end, the problem went away. I ran an ldmadmin check, > > the results of which are below. > ... I just wanted to add another possibility to this discussion. If you followed the ldm-users list this morning you might have seen that a user was having a problem. The symptoms were that his ldm would "just stop running". He finally discovered that his ldmd.conf file was losing it's contents - it would morph into a 0 length file. Replacing the file fixed the problem. It's interesting to me to find that the ldm requires that file to be present continuously, not just on startup. Then, the question became: how did the file get zero'd out? It turns out that he had written his own failover script, and in it he had confused ldmd.log with ldmd.conf. Presumably, when his script detected a downtime of the upstream host it made the swap. This resulted in what appeared to be a random zeroing of the file. FYI. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************