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Steven, > To: address@hidden > From: "Steven Danz" <address@hidden> > Subject: Minor issue with LDM 6.* > Organization: Aviation Weather Center > Keywords: 200409142045.i8EKjBnJ016694 LDM-6 ldmadmin pqact.conf The above message contained the following: > > Just been updating some 5 installs to 6 and noticed a small issue. > If you have an 'empty' pqact.conf (just a bunch of comments, or an > empty file), 'ldmadmin start' will not start ldmd as it claims that > there is an 'Error in pattern file "..../pqact.conf"'. ... On second thought, this is a feature rather than a bug. If an empty pqact.conf file were allowed, then the LDM system would be less efficient because the pqact(1) process would still be wakened by the operating system for every data-product that was inserted into the product-queue (even though nothing would be done with any product). This kind of "heavy" context switching uses a lot of system resources. It's much better to disallow such a configuration-file and to, consequently, force the user to comment-out the (now unneeded) "EXEC pqact" entry in the LDM's configuration-file. Regards, Steve Emmerson