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Warren, Because you obtains the message "Starting the LDM server...", the problem must lie with the program "bin/ldmd". Please send me the output of the command "bin/ldmd -vl-" executed by the LDM user in that user's home-directory. > Hi all, > > > I am having trouble getting our LDM installation running, upon running > ldmadmin start the following output appears: > > > The product-queue is OK. > Checking pqact(1) configuration-file(s)... > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf: syntactically correct > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.gempak: syntactically correct > Checking LDM configuration-file (/home/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf)... > Starting the LDM server... > > > after some time, the only output that appears will be : start(): Server not > started. > > > We have been following the documentation closely at this point, here is our > regutil output: > > > /delete-info-files : 0 > /hostname : pat-mcen_112_21.uncc.edu > /insertion-check-interval : 300 > /reconciliation-mode : do nothing > /check-time/enabled : 1 > /check-time/limit : 10 > /check-time/warn-if-disabled : 1 > /check-time/ntpdate/command : /usr/local/bin/ntpdate > /check-time/ntpdate/servers : ntp.ucsd.edu ntp1.cs.wisc.edu ntppub.tamu.edu > otc1.psu.edu timeserver.unidata.ucar.edu > /check-time/ntpdate/timeout : 5 > /metrics/count : 4 > /metrics/file : /home/ldm/var/logs/metrics.txt > /metrics/files : /home/ldm/var/logs/metrics.txt* > /metrics/netstat-command : /bin/netstat -A inet -t -n > /metrics/top-command : /usr/bin/top -b -n 1 > /log/count : 7 > /log/file : /home/ldm/var/logs/ldmd.log > /log/rotate : 1 > /pqsurf/config-path : /home/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf > /pqsurf/datadir-path : /home/ldm/var/data > /scour/config-path : /home/ldm/etc/scour.conf > /surf-queue/path : /home/ldm/var/queues/pqsurf.pq > /surf-queue/size : 2M > /server/config-path : /home/ldm/etc/ldmd.conf > /server/ip-addr : 152.15.112.21 > /server/max-clients : 256 > /server/max-latency : 3600 > /server/port : 388 > /server/time-offset : 3600 > /queue/path : /home/ldm/var/queues/ldm.pq > /queue/size : 500M > /queue/slots : default > /pqact/config-path : /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf > /pqact/datadir-path : /home/ldm/var/data > > > Our only REQUEST line in ldmd.conf right now is: IDS|DDPLUS ".*" > idd.meteo.psu.edu listed also for our redundancy site. > > > We generated our pqact.gempak using the script from the GEMPAK (combining all > decoders), and since we decided it is best to work from defaults, created the > default data directories under /data/ldm/gempak > > > ldmd.log is not outputting anything right now. > > > > Thanks for the help, > > > > Warren Pettee > Undergraduate - Meteorology > Department of Geography and Earth Sciences > University of North Carolina at Charlotte > 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223 > address@hidden | 336.257.9239 Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UGW-684103 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed