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Dave, You're being bitten by OS X's security feature that doesn't allow relative pathnames for shared libraries in setuid programs. Let's try a static installation via the "--disable-shared" option of the configure(1) script. Execute the commands make distclean ./configure --disable-shared ... (where "..." is whatever you had before) in the top-level source-directory and continue as before. > Steve, > > Got it, installed it successfully, stopped the old LDM (v6.11.6), removed the > “runtime” symbolic link, reestablished the runtime link to ldm-6.12.7, and > restarted the LDM. The results: > > ldm_virga% ldmadmin stop > Stopping the LDM server... > Waiting for the LDM server to terminate... > ldm_virga% \rm runtime; ln -s ldm-6.12.7 runtime > ldm_virga% ldmadmin start > The product-queue is OK. > Checking pqact(1) configuration-file(s)... > /usr/local/unidata/ldm/etc/pqact.conf: syntactically correct > dyld: Library not loaded: libz.so.1.2.8 > Referenced from: /usr/local/unidata/ldm/bin/hupsyslog > Reason: unsafe use of relative rpath libz.so.1.2.8 in > /usr/local/unidata/ldm/bin/hupsyslog with restricted binary > new_log(): Couldn't notify system logging daemon > start_ldm(): Couldn't rotate log files > > (If it matters, libz.so.1.2.8 resides in /usr/local/lib on my machine.) > > — Dave > > > *************************************************************** > * Dr. Dave Dempsey, Chair | ^ ___ \|/ * > * Dept. of Earth & Climate Sciences | ) ^ /||_||\ —-0—- * > * San Francisco State University | ) ) / ||_|| \ /|\ * > * 1600 Holloway Ave. | ) ) / ||_|| \ * > * San Francisco, CA 94132 | ) ) / ||_|| \ ^ * > * | ) ) ) ||_|| \ * > * Phone: (415) 338-7716 | ) ) )~~||~||~~~~~\~~ * > * FAX: (415) 338-7705 | ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ * > * Email: address@hidden | ) ) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ * > *************************************************************** Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PXK-681085 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed