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Larry, > I tried changing "request" to upper case, but got the same error > message. So I tried just commenting out all three "request" lines, but > again got the same message. Then I tried commenting out the two "EXEC" > lines and got the same result. This left just the two "ALLOW ANY" > lines, which were not supposed to be deleted. I tried deleting ALL > lines from the file (including comment lines) and got the same error > message. > > I also tried using the attached example ldmd.conf file but got the same > error message. > > Deleting the whole file gave me a slightly different error message: > > ldm@phobos:/home/ldm$ ldmadmin start > The product-queue is OK. > Checking pqact(1) configuration-file(s)... > Oct 27 15:39:42 UTC phobos.wr.usgs.gov : Could not open LDM > configuration-file, /usr/local/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf > ldm@phobos:/home/ldm$ > > I assume there's a problem with settings external to the file, but I'm > not enough of a Linux guru to know where the problem might lie. I assume this isn't what you want to hear, but... Congratulations! You're problem is the weirdest one I've ever seen. :-) Ensure that the LDM is stopped and send me the output of the command "rpc.ldmd -nvl- /usr/local/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf", executed by the LDM user. > Larry Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AYP-260221 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed