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>From: William C Klein <address@hidden> >Organization: Valparaiso University >Keywords: 200306161917.h5GJHQLd025665 Bill, >Are you still up for upgrading McIDAS, LDM and Gempak? I can upgrade McIDAS and LDM, but not GEMPAK. Like I said in my previous email (that you attached below), GEMPAK is available in binary form so it should be easy to install for someone at Valparaiso. >If so, what is your availibility to do so over the next week? The rest of this week is most likely out, but next week looks open. >We are >looking at doing upgrades on the support servers to Solaris 9 over this >weekend. So, you will want to do the LDM and McIDAS installations after your Solaris upgrade? Tom > On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Unidata Support wrote: > >> >From: William C Klein <address@hidden> >> >Organization: Valparaiso University >> >Keywords: 200306161917.h5GJHQLd025665 >> >> Bill, >> >> >I would like to also upgrade GEMPAK and McIDAS this summer. Would it be >> >possible to upgrade all three at once? >> >> I can upgrade your McIDAS installation, but that should wait until >> the new release, v2003, is ready for download (mid-July). GEMPAK >> is available in binary form, so that should be an easy upgrade for >> someone there. We would like to get your LDM upgraded as soon >> as possible. >> >> >I'm not sure that we can give out the root password to the box. Thanks >> >for the offer though. >> >> OK, I can do the LDM installation up to the point of the last step >> and then let you know what needs to be done. I will need the 'ldm' >> password to get this going. I would just as soon do it today if >> at all possible. >> >> >> On a separate, but relate topic: can I get you to upgrade to the latest >> >> release of the LDM-6. Statistics we are receiving show that you are >> >> still running LDM-5.x. The upgrade to LDM-6 is quick and easy, and it >> >> has proven to improve data ingestion at sites. >> >> >> >> We are willing to do the LDM-6 upgrade and ldmd.conf tuning for you as >> >> long as you give us logins for 'ldm' and 'root' ('root' login is only >> >> needed if you do not support 'sudo'; one step in the LDM installation >> >> requires 'root' to change the mode of rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog). If you >> >> are interested in us doing the upgrade, please let me know. >> >> Tom > >--------------------- >William C. Klein >Webmaster >Valparaiso University >--------------------- >