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Gabe, >Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 14:40:23 -0400 (EDT) >From: Gabe Langbauer <address@hidden> >Organization: Ohio State University >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: ldm upgrade...acting odd The above message contained the following: > [ldm@twister etc]$ echo $PATH > /usr/local/ldm/decoders:/usr/local/ldm/util:/usr/local/ldm/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/ldm/bin The directory "/usr/local/ldm/bin" is in the above twice. The last entry should be removed and the other one should be moved to before the other two "/usr/local/ldm" ones. > > ls -l > > [ldm@twister ldm]$ ls -l > total 944 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 11 Jun 14 10:28 bin -> runtime/bin > drwxr-xr-x 2 ldm unidata 4096 Dec 14 2004 crontab > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 18 Jun 14 11:24 data -> > /var/data/ldm/data > drwxr-xr-x 2 ldm unidata 4096 Jun 15 09:58 decoders > drwxr-xr-x 2 ldm unidata 4096 Jun 15 14:08 etc > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 15 Jun 14 10:29 include -> > runtime/include > drwxr-xr-x 9 ldm unidata 4096 Jun 14 10:46 ldm-6.1.0 > drwxr-xr-x 8 ldm unidata 4096 Jun 15 14:33 ldm-6.3.0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm unidata 928626 Jun 14 10:14 ldm-6.3.0.tar.Z > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 11 Jun 14 10:29 lib -> runtime/lib > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 18 Feb 14 16:31 logs -> > /var/data/ldm/logs > -rwxr-xr-x 1 ldm unidata 4331 Jan 7 09:33 mbox > -rw------- 1 ldm root 1104 May 13 13:58 menu.lst > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 24 Jun 14 10:27 runtime -> > /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 11 Jun 14 10:29 src -> runtime/src The "runtime" link should be to "ldm-6.3.0" rather than to "/usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0". > > ldmadmin config > [ldm@twister ldm]$ ldmadmin config > > hostname: twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu > os: Linux > release: 2.4.21-4.ELsmp > ldmhome: /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0 > bin path: /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0/bin > conf file: /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0/etc/ldmd.conf The last three lines above should, instead, be ldmhome: /usr/local/ldm bin path: /usr/local/ldm/bin conf file: /usr/local/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf > log file: /var/data/ldm/logs/ldmd.log The line above should, instead, be log file: /usr/local/ldm/logs/ldmd.log > numlogs: 9 > log_rotate: 1 > data path: /var/data/ldm > product queue: /var/data/ldm/ldm.pq The last two lines above should, instead, be data path: /usr/local/ldm/data product queue: /usr/local/ldm/data/ldm.pq > queue size: 1300M bytes > queue slots: 180000 > IP address: all > PID file: /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0/ldmd.pid The last line above should, instead, be PID file: /usr/local/ldm/ldmd.pid > LDMHOSTNAME: twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu > PATH: > /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.3.0/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/usb:/usr/etc:/etc:/usr/local/ldm/decoders:/usr/local/ldm/util:/usr/local/ldm/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/ldm/bin The PATH environment variable above shouldn't contain the ldm-6.3.0 directory. > --Gabe Langbauer Regards, Steve Emmerson