20021206: A problem with ldm starting

James,

>Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:23:00 -0800 (PST)
>From: James Murakami <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCLA
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: A problem with ldm starting

The above message contained the following:

> Hi. I'm from the Atmospheric Sciences Department at UCLA.
> I'm writing to you regarding a problem we're having in 
> getting ldm started on a PC using Redhat 8.0.
> 
> I found your email inquiry in the ldm-users email archive.
> Your problem about getting a "split loop" error upon trying
> to start ldm (version 5.2) is the same as with us. Did you
> ever get the problem resolved?

Unfortunately, no.

> If so, what did you have to 
> modify? So far, suggestions by the Unidata support group haven't
> been successful.

Try replacing instances of

    ( @QUEUES ) = split( "[ \t\n]+", `ls $pq_path` );

with

    ( @QUEUES ) = split( ' ', `ls $pq_path` );

Please let me know what you discover.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>