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>From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden> >Organization: Lyndon State >Keywords: 200304211433.h3LEXd7U002066 McIDAS ADDE compress FreeBSD Hi Mark, >On Wednesday 23 April 2003 20:53, you wrote: >> dataloc.k ADD RTIMAGES omega.lsc.vsc.edu >> imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR.ALL >> >> Does this work (it shouldn't since your other invocations are failing)? >I played with this some more and found that by telnetting to port 503 on omega >the adde server process returned an error, "cd: can't cd to >/home/mcidas/workdata". I checked out ~mcidas/.mcenv and found that I hadn't >updated $MCHOME to match our installation directory of /software/mcidas. >Stupid oversight on my part. The requests now work without any error >messages. Wonderful! I had been on the verge of sending you a note with steps to check out the environment setup in .mcenv, but you beat me to it! >Thanks for your help on this. No worries. I am glad things are up and running. >BTW, freebsd is surprisingly fast. Our ldm running Linux on the same hardware >runs at a much higher load for the same tasks. It seems to maintain >responsiveness under high load in more graceful manner, similar to the way >solaris performs. This matches our experience as well. I am grateful to Jim Koermer of Plymouth State for showing us the way to FreeBSD. Cheers, Tom