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Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >From: Bunny Pfau <address@hidden> > >Subject: LDM for two computers > >Organization: NCAR/HAO > >Keywords: 200102231648.f1NGmdL01689 LDM install ldmadmin > > Hello: > > I have a case where I would like to run an LDM server > on two different computers (Solaris 2.5.1/LDM 5.1.2) > and I would like to keep the binaries and so on on > an NFS shared file system...in other words, so that although > two computers are running independent LDM servers that I do not > have two absolute and redundant installations. > > Of course, I would need to have separate .conf files and > queues. One thing that prevents this is that the ldmadmin > file has a place where the hostname is hardwired in. > Naturally, that could be modified to check which host its > running on and derive the hostname in that way. > > I didn't want to toy with this before first asking why things > are set up this way and if there are some inherent difficulties > in using a shared installation. > > Thanks, > Bunny > > --- > > Bunny Pfau National Center for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden High Altitude Observatory > tel: 303 497-1555 P.O. Box 3000 > fax: 303 497-1589 Boulder, CO 80307-3000 > > ------- End of Forwarded Message Hi Bunny, Although I don't know of any site that has done this, I think it would work. You're right about needing separate conf files and queues. I assume the path to LDMHOME would be the same for each host. Regarding the hostname in ldmadmin, you could just rename ldmadmin something like ldmadmin.<host> then in your shell alias ldmadmin to be ldmadmin.<host>. Then you wouldn't have to edit the script every time you upgrade. If you implement this and find out anything else about it, will you please let me know? I'll add it to our support archives so others will know. Thanks! Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************