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>From: "Klein, William" <address@hidden> >Organization: Valparaiso >Keywords: 200310242137.h9OLbnOb019313 LDM pqact.conf Bill, >I tried updating our pqact.conf file (with 142 lines). Then hup'ed it and >here is the result from the tail of ldmadmin: > >~ >"pqact.conf" 145 lines, 4383 characters > >[ aeolus : ldm : ~/etc ] >[ 20 ] > ldmadmin tail >Oct 24 20:30:55 aeolus prune_nexrad.csh [20859]: [ID 702911 local0.notice] >start Fri Oct 24 20:30:00 GMT 2003 stop Fri Oct 24 20:30:55 GMT 2003 >Oct 24 20:45:01 aeolus prune_nexrcomp.csh [22068]: [ID 702911 >local0.notice] start Fri Oct 24 20:45:00 GMT 2003 stop Fri Oct 24 20:45:01 >GMT 2003 >Oct 24 21:15:02 aeolus prune_gini.csh [22808]: [ID 702911 local0.notice] >start Fri Oct 24 21:15:00 GMT 2003 stop Fri Oct 24 21:15:02 GMT 2003 >Oct 24 21:30:59 aeolus prune_nexrad.csh [23027]: [ID 702911 local0.notice] >start Fri Oct 24 21:30:00 GMT 2003 stop Fri Oct 24 21:30:59 GMT 2003 >Oct 24 21:31:30 aeolus pqact[386]: ReReading configuration file >/home/ldm/etc/pqact.nexrad >Oct 24 21:31:30 aeolus pqact[382]: ReReading configuration file >/usr/local/ldm/etc/pqact.conf >Oct 24 21:31:30 aeolus pqact[382]: Syntax error at line 152, not enough >fields >Oct 24 21:31:30 aeolus pqact[382]: Error in pattern file >"/usr/local/ldm/etc/pqact.conf" >Oct 24 21:32:54 aeolus pqact[386]: ReReading configuration file >/home/ldm/etc/pqact.nexrad >Oct 24 21:32:54 aeolus pqact[382]: ReReading configuration file >/usr/local/ldm/etc/pqact.conf > >Says there is an error at line 152? For some reason it is calculating that the error should be in line 152 which obviously doesn't exist on your system. This is an error in the logic that tries to tell you the line number of the problem, but nonetheless, you have an error in your pqact.conf file that you need to find and fix. Tom