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Kevin, > Typing that command yields the dreaded SegFault . . . > > Note I built this with Sun Studio 11 compiler . . . > I then tried unlimiting stacksize, and now I see a regpar.tab and a > .libs directory in the regutil directory, and the registry.xml in the > /etc directory. Maybe that is the trick . . . I will try rebuilding > from scratch now, with an unlmited stacksize. > It gets a little further, but still segfaults (make.out attached): Did you execute the command "make distclean" before executing the configure(1) script? The file "make.out" contained this: ... make[3]: Entering directory `/home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/src/regutil' test -z "/home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/bin" || .././install-sh -c -d "/home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/bin" /bin/bash ../libtool --mode=install .././install-sh -c regutil '/home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/bin' .././install-sh -c .libs/regutil /home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/bin/regutil sed -e 's;@''LDMHOME@;/home/ldmnldn;g' \ -e 's;@''LOGS_DIR@;/home/ldmnldn/var/logs;g' \ -e 's;@''QUEUE_DIR@;/home/ldmnldn/var/queues;g' \ -e 's;@''DATA_DIR@;/home/ldmnldn;g' \ -e 's;@''HOSTNAME@;striker2;g' \ -e 's;@''NTPDATE@;/usr/sbin/ntpdate;g' \ -e 's;@''LOG_FILE@;/home/ldmnldn/var/logs/ldmd.log;g' \ -e 's;@''METRICS_FILE@;/home/ldmnldn/var/logs/metrics.txt;g' \ -e 's;@''NETSTAT@;/usr/bin/netstat -f inet -P tcp -n;g' \ -e 's;@''TOP@;/apps/sparc/bin/top -b -n 1;g' \ -e 's;@''ETC_DIR@;/home/ldmnldn/etc;g' \ ./regpar.tab.in >regpar.tab.tmp mv regpar.tab.tmp regpar.tab /apps/sparc/bin/perl ./installRegistry regpar.tab ./regutil \ /home/ldmnldn/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf /home/ldmnldn/etc delete_info_files -> /delete-info-files : 0 hostname -> /hostname : striker2.atmos.albany.edu insertion_check_period -> /insertion-check-interval : 300 (nil) -> /reconciliation-mode : increase queue check_time -> /check-time/enabled : 1 check_time_limit -> /check-time/limit : 10 warn_if_check_time_disabled -> /check-time/warn-if-disabled : 1 ntpdate -> /check-time/ntpdate/command : /usr/sbin/ntpdate time_servers -> /check-time/ntpdate/servers : ntp.ucsd.edu ntp1.cs.wisc.edu ntppub.tamu.edu otc1.psu.edu timeserver.unidata.ucar.edu ntpdate_timeout -> /check-time/ntpdate/timeout : 5 numlogs -> /log/count : 7 (nil) -> /log/file : /home/ldmnldn/var/logs/ldmd.log log_rotate -> /log/rotate : 1 num_metrics -> /metrics/count : 4 metrics_file -> /metrics/file : /home/ldmnldn/runtime/logs/metrics.txt metrics_files -> /metrics/files : /home/ldmnldn/logs/metrics.txt* netstat -> /metrics/netstat-command : /usr/bin/netstat -f inet -P tcp -n top -> /metrics/top-command : /apps/sparc/bin/top -b -n 1 pqact_conf -> /pqact/config-path : /home/ldmnldn/runtime/etc/pqact.conf (nil) -> /pqact/datadir-path : /home/ldmnldn (nil) -> /pqsurf/config-path : /home/ldmnldn/etc/pqsurf.conf (nil) -> /pqsurf/datadir-path : /home/ldmnldn (nil) -> /queue/path : /home/ldmnldn/var/queues/ldm.pq pq_size -> Segmentation Fault Please set the shell variable $default to the value of the "$pq_size" variable in the file "/home/ldmnldn/etc/ldmadmin-pl.conf. Then drop into the directory "/home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/regutil" and send me the output from the command ./regutil -d /home/ldmnldn/etc -s $default /queue/size Also, please send me the output from the command "ulimit -a" (or whatever the equivalent command for your user shell is). Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WSU-931209 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed