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Teresa Van Hove wrote: > > Jeff, > > Well, I'll play with adding a -o 1209600 to the /bin/ldmadmin script > without any -m flag on one of the ldm5.12 version cpu's. We got an > error message at ldmadmin startup on the vs 5.08 machine until we also > added -m and set it larger than the -o flag. > > Actually just tried this on the ldm 5.12 version that collects the > suominet data for processing and again get this error message (right to > the screen at ldmadmin start) : > rpc.ldmd: invalid toffset 1209800 > max_latency 3600Usage: rpc.ldmd > [options] [conf_filename] > > So regardless of the theory, in practice I seem to need to use both > flags, with -m set a bit bigger than -o, to get the -o (toffset) value > that I want. > > Thanks, > Teresa > Hi Jeff, Well, I saw the bit of code that generates this message - it certainly seems to conflict with the man page. I scanned the cvs log - Glen messed with this back in 1995 - maybe he didn't update the man page, I can't tell. So, the software wants toffset to be strictly less than max latency. Time to graciously backpedal... Welcome to support! :-) Anne p.s. I'm cc'ing this to support-ldm so there's a record of what we found in the archives. Tommorrow lets talk about support-ldm.