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Re: question about Y2K fix

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Russ Rew wrote:

> Robb,
> 
> I'm about to modify the y2k-fix web page slightly to say
> 
>     % cd ~ldm/runtime/src/pqact
>     % mv palt.c palt.sav
> 
>     Then copy the new palt.c to this directory and build a new Pqact, with:
> 
>     % make
> 
>     At this point, you should stop your LDM before installing the new
>     pqact, then restart it again:
> 
>     % ldmadmin stop

Russ,

save the old pqact, if a problem
   
      % mv ~ldm/bin/pqact ~ldm/bin/pqact.sav


>     % cp pqact ~ldm/bin
>     % ldmadmin start
> 
> Is this right?  I think if we don't include in the directions that the
> LDM be shut down before moving the new pqact into place, we'll get
> questions about why the LDM crashed ...


I did the move before the shutting down the LDM, it didn't crash because
pqact was cached in memory. But, I'm a lucky guy. So go ahead and make the
changes to the Web page

> 
> --Russ
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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