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Agustin Diaz wrote: > > Hello Anne, > > Thanks for your quick response. I noticed you mention that the latest > version of LDM is 5.1.3, but the latest binary version on the ftp server for > sunOS 5.8 is 5.1.2.1, which is the version I am attempting to install. > Should I install 5.1.3 from the ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/ldm5/ directory? > Right - I forgot that we didn't make binaries for 5.1.3. The 5.1.2 binary is just fine. Might as well stick with that. > There are no ldmadmin logs to look at. Would they be located in > /usr/local/ldm/logs? > Yes. It's most important to get the logging working first, as that's where you'll get messages regarding other problems. Did you follow the preinstallation instructions at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html? In particular, the section on "Configuring the Operating System as root" gives the changes you must make to /etc/syslog.conf. The other essential piece for logging is that $LDMHOME/bin/hupsyslog is setuid root, as per the instructions at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmBinaryInstallList.html under "Make rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog suid root". > I checked the local disk on the machine and there should be more than enough > disk space. I even lowered the queue size to 10MB since we will not be > receiving much data. > This sounds fine. > The directory in which I'm building the queue has read and write permissions > for ldm. > > When I attempted to run pqcreate, it gave me a permission denied > message-bash: ./pqcreate: Permission denied. I believe that may be the > problem. > What are the permissions on pqcreate? > Thanks again for your help. > > -Agustin > You're welcome! Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************