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>From: "Charles Mcgill" <address@hidden> >Organization: WFO BTV >Keywords: 200311251543.hAPFh3EH027063 LDM request failure for workstation ET Charles, >Mark and I checked the rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog last week, and I changed >the permissions to what they should be. So that's problem was solved. Good. That will insure that the LDM communications use port 388. >/etc/rpc and /etc/services are OK, but I may have a problem with >syslogd.conf. What should the entry in there look like? Configuration of /etc/... files is described in the online documentation for the LDM: Unidata HomePage http://my.unidata.ucar.edu LDM HomePage http://my.unidata.ucar.edu LDM-6.0.14 http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldm-6.0.14/index.html LDM Basics http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldm-6.0.14/basics/index.html LDM Preinstallation Steps http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldm-6.0.14/basics/preinstallation.html The last link contains the information on syslog.conf entries. Basically, you will be adding an entry for local0.debug actions and adding to an existing entry for local0.none actions. Please note that white space in /etc/syslog.conf may need to be tabs instead of spaces. If your LDM is running on a Linux box, your /etc/syslog.conf entries will look more-or-less like: ... *.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local0.none /var/log/messages ... # # LDM messages on local0 # local0.debug /usr/local/ldm/logs/ldmd.log In this example, the LDM log file ldmd.log is located in the /usr/local/ldm/logs directory. If your setup is such that ~ldm/logs is a link to a physically different directory, it is best to use the exact directory instead of the link. After making the necessary addition and modification to /etc/syslog.conf, you will need to send a HUP signal to the syslogd process. >Chuck McGill NWS, Burlington Int'l Airport >ITO 1200 Airport Dr >address@hidden S. Burlington VT 05403 >802-862-8711 ext 251 http://www.erh.noaa.gov/btv Cheers, Tom