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Re: non standard LDM user account name

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  • Subject: Re: non standard LDM user account name
  • Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:29:11 -0700
> On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> > Hi Robb,
> >
> > I'm upgrading Jennie Moody's machine for her.  She doesn't use user 'ldm' - 
> > instead she uses user 'ldma'.  The only place I see the name 'ldm' appear 
> > in all of our distribution is in ldmadmin - the line is:
> >
> > $ldmhome = "/home/ldm";
> >
> > And the line in her ldmadmin is
> >
> > $ldmhome = "/home/ldma";
> >
> > Does the name appear anywhere else?  If not, can I do a binary installation 
> > and just change this one thing in ldmadmin?
> 
> Anne,
> 
> That's ok as long as there is a link from /usr/local/ldm to /home/ldma
> because that's hardcoded in the binary releases.  
> 
> Robb...
> 
> >
> > Is this link requirement new since 5.0.5 (which is what Jennie is now 
> > running)?  And, where in the code is this hardcoded?
> 
> No, the link requirement has been there since we've been building binary
> releases. It's there because the LDM must know the path to the binaries
> and many sites make LDMHOME in different dirs, ie /opt/ldm. The path is
> set when one compiles the source so it's not needed if one builds from
> source.
> 
> Robb...
> 
> >
> > Anne
> >
> 
> ===============================================================================
> Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
> Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
> address@hidden                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
> ===============================================================================

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