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"John C. Nordlie" wrote: > > Howdy. > Ok, I downloaded the ldm 5.1.2 binary for sunos_5.6-sparc, > installed it, ran the scriptconfig (and ran it again after it complained > about not having the qualified hostname), killed off all the rpc.ldmd > and decoder processes, erased the queue, changed the runtime link, > made a new queue, typed 'ldmadmin start' and ... > > it worked! > > No hangs, no core files, 'ldmadmin pqactcheck' returns proper syntax > (it did before changing versions, btw), 'ldmadmin watch' shows data > coming in (that worked before too), so all seems to be working right. > Oh, our version of perl is 5.002. > > So I can only guess there was some issue with the executable > and the OS version, which is kind of weird but I'm not complaining! > All I can say is a big 'Thankyou' for helping me cure the problem, > and sorry for bugging you (but no promises that I won't in the > future :). > > Oh, and FYI, the core files were being generated from rpc.ldmd. > > I'll watch it like a hawk for a while, and let you know if anything > strange happens. > Great! So now I know that that binary will run on an older OS, and it wasn't pqact.conf after all. Although I don't understand why the previous version wouldn't run... You are very welcome, and you did not bug me. If things change for the worse let me know. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************