20051108: a question and an notice (cont.)

>From: Ricardo Mantilla <address@hidden>
>Organization: CU
>Keywords: 200511082059.jA8Kxh7s004892 McIDAS LDM Colombia

Hi Ricardo,

re:
>Sorry about the delay replaying.  I was finishing the details of my
>trip to Colombia before getting back to you.

No worries.  I am happy to see what you included below!

re: IP change for adde.ucar.edu
>Thanks for letting me know about the server change.

McIDAS has this nasty approach of caching the IP address for a server
when the entry in the client routing table is first setup (using
DATALOC ADD group server), so it is not apparent that anything needs to
be done to updated the entry when an address changes.  I will be
spending time today contacting several sites that are apparently not
subscribed to our mcidas-x or ldm-users email lists to let them know
that they need to make the change.

>In fact we just
>decommission the computer where I installed mcidas, and I have been
>unable to recompile the code on my new machine.  It is an AMD Opteron
>dual-core 64 bit.  I am also running SUSE instead of Fedora and there
>are a couple things on the mcinet2005.sh shell that don't work on this
>linux distro.

Comment:  dual core Opteron; nice!

I am curious about what the problems are.  _If_ you have time can you
please let me know what you rean into?  I have recently made several
modifications to the v2005 distribution one of which gets around a
problem seen on newer Linux versions on fast CPUs.  There appears to be
a bug in the 'ar' (archive manager) routine; it doesn't flush memory
buffers to disk before 'ranlib' is run on a library.  The result of
this is link failure further on in the McIDAS build process.  My
"solution" was to put a sleep after the 'ar' invocation so that things
would get flushed to disk before continuing.

I have not run into any problems with mcinet2005.sh, so I am
particularly interested in what you ran into.

>The fact of the matter is that I didn't wanted to worry to much about
>it because my main objective is to set it up in Colombia.

OK.  Will you be using the same kind of machine in Colombia?

re: any feedback from your associates at the UC (just noticed that
the abbreviation is the same)

>I did.  They are excited about getting this to work there, but they
>lack the time and man power, that is why I will be using part of my
>vacation there to help them set up the Unidata server.  I plan to be
>there working in setting up the ldm server and mcidas the week from
>Dec. 19th to Dec 23th.  I hope I can contact you that week in case I
>run into problems, and to set up the appropriate permissions for data
>in the servers.

Sounds great.  I will be looking forward to helping you get things up
and working!

By the way, what is the full name of the university?

Cheers,

Tom
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>From address@hidden  Wed Nov  9 09:58:50 2005

Hi Tom,

re: using the same kind of machine

Yes, a very similar one.

>By the way, what is the full name of the university?

The full name is:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellin.
http://www.unalmed.edu.co

Best Regards, Ricardo
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