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>From: "Anderson, Alan C. " <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 200310071420.h97EK2k1007135 LDM IDD Hi Alan, >Well I did not accuse anyone, but I I could have. I may need >to eat a little humble pie myself, but I did not start the problem. Hmm... >The problem was in our ldmd.conf file. The request line for >Albany was ok, but those for papagayo had a leading space at >the left edge of the line. Removing that space, stopping and >restarting the ldm and data is now flowing. I saw this structure >earlier today, but did not realize it could be the problem. We just talked about this situation and agreed that the parser for ldmd.conf should not interpret a line that begins with a space as a comment. Comment lines should be only those for which the first non whitespace character is the '#' character. This will eliminate problems like the one you ran into. >I think I know who edited it the last time but I won't get into that. >So, that is what part time administration gets us to. This was not a big deal for us. I was just concerned that you were not getting data, and that was impacting your ability to teach your classes. >I asked our net guy to turn on ssh for waldo and he said it would >be on by tomorrow morning. Not sure why it was turned off. >Any changes or suggestions you make would be welcome. OK, I will upgrade you to LDM-6.0.14 and make any adjustments in ldmd.conf that I think are warranted. I will, of course, let you know exactly what I did. >I did not try to get data from emo. Are you offering him as >a failover site ? I offered emo since it is under our immediate control, and so can be changed to feed anybody we want. We do not, however, want folks to start using emo as an official failover site since it is a development and test machine. >Thanks for the prompt reply and concern on your part. The support >we get from Unidata makes all these little snags seem minor. It is my pleasure to help out when I can. On to the next fire ;-) Cheers, Tom