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Hi Gini, Can you send me the "pqact.conf" file in question as an attachment? > We are refreshing our lDM servers from 6.6.5 to LDM 6.11.6 > > When we try to startup the new LDM with the old pqact.conf we get errors. > > The legacy pqact.conf we are trying to use with the new version has these > entires: > > EXP ^rtstats[^/]*/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/(.*) > FILE /var/opt/ldm/logs/rtstats/\2/%Y%m%d/\1/\3 > FT27 ^(wsr88d[0-9]*\.tbz2$) > FILE -overwrite -close /var/opt/ldm/NEXRD3/incoming/\1 > > > The named direrectories in pqact.conf do exist: > > drwxr-xr-x. 2 ldm rpccds 4096 Sep 27 12:52 /var/opt/ldm/logs/rtstats/EXP > drwxr-xr-x. 2 ldm rpccds 4096 Sep 27 20:40 /var/opt/ldm/NEXRD3/incoming > > > Startup says to remove leading spaces : > [ldm@radar3rcv1 etc]$ ldmadmin start > The product-queue is OK. > Checking pqact(1) configuration-file(s)... > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf: remove leading spaces in the following: > 120: FILE /var/opt/ldm/logs/rtstats/\2/%Y%m%d/\1/\3 > 122: FILE -overwrite -close > /var/opt/ldm/NEXRD3/incoming/\1 > > > Then removing leading spaces as directed: > > $ldmadmin start > The product-queue is OK. > Checking pqact(1) configuration-file(s)... > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf: has problems: > Feb 24 16:29:21 pqact[31133] NOTE: Starting Up > Feb 24 16:29:21 pqact[31133] ERROR: Syntax error at line 124, not > enough fields > Feb 24 16:29:21 pqact[31133] ERROR: Error in configuration-file > "/home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf" > Feb 24 16:29:21 pqact[31133] NOTE: Exiting > > > Can you advise how to make our pqact.conf work with the new LDM version? > > Thanks > > Gini Galvin > Internet Specialist > DOC/NOAA/NWS/TG/TSB Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ERH-201080 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed