Re: A disturbing lack of data

• To: Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: A disturbing lack of data
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:22:58 -0600

Ben,

>Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:31:29 -0500 (US Eastern Standard Time)
>From: Ben Cotton <bcotton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: A disturbing lack of data

The above message contained the following:

> We rebooted anvil today because it doesn't play nice with the other
> children.  Unfortunately, they didn't give me time to politely stop LDM
> before the switch was thrown.

Assuming that the systems administrator didn't just execute the halt(1)
command or merely pull the plug, then you should probably incorporate
an LDM shutdown/boot script into the shutdown/boot procedure of the
computer in question in order to ensure a graceful shutdown and startup.
Information on this, as well as an example, can currently be found at

    
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/ldm/ldm-6.0.14/basics/configuring.html#boot

> Ben
> 
> ====================
> Benjamin J. Cotton
> LDM/Forecast Game Administrator
> Dept of Earth and Atmos. Sci.
> Purdue University
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson
LDM Developer

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