Karl, > Last nite while not sleeping I had an epiphony and this morning I fixed > the problem. The ldm daemon has to be set uid root. I guess you know that > that means? I need to go look at Unidata documentation, I bet it is right > there. That's correct. Two installed LDM utilities need to be setuid and owned by root: bin/rpc.ldmd and bin/hupsyslog. The first is necessary in order for the LDM to listen on its registered port (388) and the second is necessary for correct logging using the system daemon (syslogd). > -- > Dr. Karl Hudnut System Administrator UCAR - COSMIC > address@hidden http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu 303 497 8024 Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RFJ-134602 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed