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Hi Teresa, The pqexpire command should be commented out in the ldmd.conf file... I thought we commented this out on all the cloned disks, so it is a bit of a mystery as to why it is not, but it is an easy fix. If it is commented out, and still being called, then we have an issue. local/ldm% more ldmd.conf ##### # Simple setup for testing pqinsert actions #### #exec "pqexpire" #exec "xcd_run MONITOR" #exec "pqact" #exec "pqbinstats" #exec "pqsurf" Thank you, -Jeff ____________________________ _____________________ Jeff Weber address@hidden Unidata Support PH:303-497-8676 NWS-COMET Case Study Library FX:303-497-8690 University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 ________________________________________ ______________________ On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Teresa Van Hove wrote: > Jeff, > > I have a bit of an LDM mystery. pqexpire is running on the suominet > field cpu's and they are not accumulating files - they never have > more than 2 files, I cant figure out what is starting the pqexpire > - its not running on my suomildm1 cpu that "catches" the incoming > data and I don't see any line in the ldmadmin file that starts > pqexpire (or stops/prevents it on my cpu.) Can you tell me how to > avoid having the pqexpire process on the field cpu's. (the ps start > time matches the ldmamdin start time) > > THanks, > Teresa >