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>From: Mark Bradford <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200307251708.h6PH80Ld016757 Mark, re: anonymous FTP >> The easiest way to get the distribution is through anonymous FTP: >> >> ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu >> <user> anonymous >> <pass> address@hidden >> cd pub/ldm >> binary >> get ldm-6.0.14.tar.Z >> quit > >I tried that first thing, Tom, but ftp.unidata.ucar.edu is not accepting >FTP connections: > >ingest@torrent (/ingest/ldm) ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu >Connected to ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. >421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection >ftp> >(Similar results with ncftp.) This must be some sort of security perimeter thing. I just did the FTP from motherlode.ucar.edu (which spans the security perimeter) and papagayo.unl.edu, a site at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln which is definitely outside of the security perimeter. Do you have a site I can FTP the distribution to? re: Please use 6.0.14. It has some important bugfixes. >Okay. >I was just reading the release notes, and see that ldmadmin now exits if >the hostname is not a FQDN; why is that? I'm not terribly inclined to >change how I manage hostnames unless it's strictly necessary... Acually, you can specify the fully qualified domain name in ldmadmin if the return of 'uname -n' does not return one. The lines to be concerned about are: # The fully-qualified domain-name of the computer system. If you have to set # this manually, then do the following: # 1) Replace "your.hostname.here" in the following commented-out statement # with the fully-qualified domain-name of the computer system; # 2) Uncomment-out the same line by removing the leading hash (#) character; # and # 3) Comment-out the "chop" line by inserting a leading hash (#) character. # chop($hostname = `uname -n`); # $hostname = "your.hostname.here"; So, if 'uname -n' is not a FQDN, simply comment out the 'chop' line, fill in 'your.hostname.here', and uncomment the $hostname line. >Thanks! No worries. Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+