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Brad Teale wrote: > > Anne, > I am the developer trying to get the LDM software up and running at our > site. I am trying to get the pqact program to file some headers, however, I > can't get the program to exec from within the ldmadmin script or rpc.ldmd. > After running the rpc.ldmd -x, nothing seems to be wrong, other than it > won't exec any programs that are defined in the ldmd.conf file. I can start > the pqact program from the command line with the -x option, and everything > runs correctly. > > We are running ldm-5.1.3 on a Solaris 7 sparc system. I have compiled the > ldm software with Sun's cc and gcc, both executables behaved the same. I > have double checked the pqact.conf and ldmd.conf files, both have the proper > format. I have also tried the default config files with the appropriate > changes for our setup, and they did not work either. > > I'm not sure what could be wrong, any ideas? > > Thanks, > Brad Teale > Universal Weather & Aviation, Inc. > <mailto:address@hidden> > 713-944-1440 ext. 3623 Brad, Please try executing 'rpc.ldmd -x -l -' (the -l - will cause it log to the screen) and send me the output. Be sure all ldm processes are dead before you do this command. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************