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Dave, > Anything to encourage you to continue trying to get to the bottom of > the problem! We don't really have an acceptable backup computer to use > for the combined work of running the LDM, generating Web-based > products triggered by receipt of data, and serving the products on the > Web. That's what we bought the new computer (currently virga) for; its > predecessor was struggling and appears partly disabled. We could try > to set up one machine (with an older version of Mac OS X) to run the > LDM and another to generate products and serve them on the Web, but > that increases the complexity of the operation and decreases its > reliability--I've been there already and desperately want not to have > to go back to it. > > The root account on virga is not enabled for security purposes. > Instead, the usual, equally workable alternative is to run anything > that you want to run as root by preceding it with the "sudo" command. > I've (temporarily) configured the OS so that the ldm account has sudo > privileges for everything. For example, to run desiredcommand as root, > you'd run: > > prompt% sudo desiredcommand arguments Thanks. It works. Unfortunately, we now have to wait for the downstream IDS-receiving LDM to freeze. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: TXN-293177 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Open