20000805: ~mcidas needs to be world readable (cont.)

>From: "John D. Tucker" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Western Michigan
>Keywords: 200007181435.e6IEZAT22632 McIDAS-X -XCD ADDE LDM install

John and Elen,

>Got your message about 23:15 EDT today (Saturday) and changed protections
>on files/directories according to my understanding of your request.

Thanks.  It was my fault for not remembering to tell you this earlier
on.  I verified that the change you made was sufficient to be able
to run McIDAS-X commands/sessions from correctly configured, non-'mcidas'
accounts.

>Presumably YOU are not so foolish as to be reading mail before Monday
>morning,

Oops, guilty.

>but if you do (and are so inclined) checkout the changes and see
>if that is what was desired.

The change seems to be sufficient.  Thanks again.

>I will probably check my mail tomorrow
>evening and will be in as usual on Monday.

OK.  I think that Elen should be able to do her research from her account
now.

>For now, I am going to bed.

Me too!

Tom

>From address@hidden Sun Aug  6 15:33:59 2000
>Subject: Re: 20000804: ~mcidas needs to be world readable

Hi John,

Thank you so much.  Maybe I am very foolish too.  But I am here at work
today (Sunday) and will try to find out if my account can "see" mcidas.

Keep yourself close to a shelter today.  The forecast is calling for
severe weather this afternoon/evening.  When I left to the church
parking lot this noon it felt as if I was entering a sauna.

Elen

>From address@hidden Sun Aug  6 15:34:07 2000
>Subject: Re: 20000805: ~mcidas needs to be world readable (cont.)

Thanks Tom!  It seems that we all are guilty of foolishness!
I will go down to the lab soon and try to work mcidas from my account.
Thanks again,
Elen

Elen Cutrim
Associate Professor
Geography Department
Western Michigan University
Ph: (616)387-3418
FAX:(616)387-3442
email: address@hidden

>From address@hidden Sun Aug  6 20:15:52 2000
>Subject: Re: 20000805: ~mcidas needs to be world readable (cont.)

Another foolish night of late hours.  (But at least this time I have an
excuse--local foul weather.)

Glad to hear that things (should?) work.  If not, I presume be in as usual
tomorrow.

G'nite.

-- 
John D. Tucker                       Phone: (616) 387-5448
Systems Programmer                Internet: address@hidden
University Computing Services    Ham Radio: WB8ZVV
Western Michigan University     ICBM Addr.: 42 17 30 N 85 35 14 W
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>From address@hidden Fri Aug 11 14:29:10 2000
>cc: "Dr. Elen Cutrim" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20000802: McIDAS-X ADDE and LDM installation at Western Michigan 
>(cont.) 

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Unidata Support wrote:

>Now, onto the setup steps needed to be done by 'root' to get the LDM
>working.  Here are snippits of our online instructions for installing/
>configuring the LDM:
>
>Configuring the Operating System as root
>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html#s8
>
>Configuring the Operating System as root
>
>     Add the following lines to file /etc/services 
>
>                 ldm 388/udp unidata        # UCAR Unidata LDM
>                 ldm 388/tcp unidata        # UCAR Unidata LDM
>            
>
>     This allows programs such as netstat to associate activity on IP port 388
>     with the LDM.
>
>     Add the following line to file /etc/rpc 
>
>                 ldmd 300029 ldm
>            
>
>     This allows programs such as rpcinfo to identify RPC program number
>     300029 as the LDM.
>
>     The LDM uses the system logging daemon, syslogd, to write error messages
>     by the local0 facility. 
>
>         Add the following entries to file /etc/syslog.conf 
>
>                local0.debug       /usr/local/ldm/logs/ldmd.log
>                
>
>         Modify the following lines in file /etc/syslog.conf so that LDM
>          messages will not be written to the console 
>
>         *.err;kern.notice;auth.notice;user.none;local0.none     /dev/console
>         *.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit;user.none;local0.none  
> /var/adm/message
>
>
>Make rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog suid root
>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmBinaryInstallList.html#s7
>
>Change permissions for rpc.ldmd and hupsyslog to be setuid root. This step
>needs to be done as root 
>
>             % cd ~ldm/{version-directory}/bin
>             % chown root rpc.ldmd
>             % chown root hupsyslog
>             % chmod u+srwx,g+rx,o+rx rpc.ldmd
>             % chmod u+srwx,g+rx,o+rx hupsyslog
>            
>Here {version-directory} will be ldm-5.0.8.
>
>As soon as these changes are made, the LDM should be able to be started
>and run to collect realtime data for Elen's classes.

Lots of noise and confusion here, but things (somehow) get
done.  Dr. Cutrim, after some minor hassles with data transfers to s418
did start analyzing data using the MCIDAS software.

The above changes have been made (hopefully properly) on s418 and the
machine nas been re-booted.  Also, you might checkout the following:
    SU:/ilya2/ldm/logs> ls -l
    total 2
    lrwxrwxrwx   1 ldm      ldm            4 Jul 19 19:50 logs -> logs
I suspect that is not quite what was intended.

Rumor has it that a weekend is about to start, but I will probably check
my mail a time or two before Monday.  Hope yours is quiet and pleasant.

-- 
John D. Tucker                       Phone: (616) 387-5448
Systems Programmer                Internet: address@hidden
University Computing Services    Ham Radio: WB8ZVV
Western Michigan University     ICBM Addr.: 42 17 30 N 85 35 14 W
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA 49008  Audio Addr.: "Hey Tucker!"