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Carl, I have reposted the rtstats.tar.Z file under ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/ldm5/rtstats/rtstats.tar.Z. I have fixed the creation of the *.stats files. These are a remnant of using code from the pqbinstats program which can be used to initialize the statistics. Since I created the program on a machine running pqbinstats from the LDM, the files were already there, but if you aren't running pqbinstats, then they don't need to exist. The log messages you get are not from rtstats, but rather from the rpc.ldmd process that accepts your connection. Unfortunately, I can't stop the LDM from issuing those messages without modifying how all connections are logged from the LDM source code outside of the /etc/syslog.conf file where generally the local0 logging is local0.debug.... so, all connections are logged. On my LDM here where I'm only processing stats, I have set the syslog to local0.warning. That might not be desireable where you want to log other feeds you are sending data to. Thanks for the feedback. Steve Chiswell On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Carl Sinclair wrote: > Steve, > > Has anything changed lately on rtstats? Everything seems to be working > well here. I do have a few suggestions though: > > 1. Eliminate the *.stats files all together. The rtstats program creates > these files of zero size, and it's just a mess to be cleaned up. > > 2. Add a flag to quiet the log entries. The log files get very big with > all the messages that are posted from rtstats. I'm not sure if that's > an rtstats issue, or if LDM automatically logs all that stuff. > > Other than that, it's a very good program. Nice job. > > Carl > > > -- > _______________________ > Carl Sinclair > CAPS Research Associate > (405)325-5938 >