If you vi the file, try the following to remove funny characters
(usually the ^M if you've gotten hold of a PC transferred file).
:%s/^v^M//
The ^v is an actual ControlV, followed by M, not Carat-M. The
replacement or substituted character in the command would fall between
the // characters, so you're essentially telling it to remove the
character or replace it with nothing. The ^ before the M shows up
automagically.
If you specify ASCII to ftp a text file, generally these PC-specific
characters will get stripped on the transfer because they're not ASCII
characters.
CHANCELLOR.D.ELLIS@customs.treas.gov wrote:
>
> I have worked through this and I think I figured out what was wrong.
>
> I had my location.conf file created by our DNS group becuase they
> tracked the IP addresses that are used at each location. They created
> this file in Notepad on a Windows NT PC. I then cleaned it up a
> little, again on a PC. Then, I copied the file to our AIX box via ftp.
> when looking at it with VI, everything looked great, but all locations
> were still not being created.
>
> I wanted my locations to be created in alphabetical order, so I
> decided to alphabetize the location.conf file. To do this, I edited
> the location.conf in Microsoft Excel and sorted by location name. I
> then saved it as a text file and copied it back to the AIX box. When I
> opened it in VI, I saw a bunch of special charaters that Excel put in
> the file. That made me think could there be special characters that
> Notepad put in the file, that VI couldn't display, that were hosing up
> my object creation.
>
> So, I have a Windows based UNIX file editor that I pulled the
> alphabetized location.conf into. I saved the file in UNIX format and
> then copied it back to the AIX box. Everything works fine now!
>
> Just wanted to give an update in case someone else comes across a
> similar problem,
>
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
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> Subject: [NV-L] More Location.conf woes
> Author: "IBM NetView Discussion" <nv-l@tkg.com> at smtplink
> Date: 11/29/00 11:22 AM
>
> Thank you for all of the help you have given me the last couple
> of months with Netview. I really appreciate it! I am fairly new to
> Netview and so I have a lot questions. The mailing list has really
> helped me out.
>
> I have been working with Tivoli support on a problem I have with the
> location.conf file. They have fixed the problem in 6.0.1 and my
> locations are all created successfully now.
>
> The problem I am having is that only a few of the networks get placed
> in their correct location container when I do a mapgen. Some networks
> end up in locations that they shouldn't be in and most of them just
> end up on the IPMap.
>
> Here is a snippet of my location.conf file:
>
> North_East 0 Site
> South_East 0 Site
> North_West 0 Site
> South_West 0 Site
> North_Central 0 Site
> South_Central 0 Site
>
> JFK007 10.157.192.0-7 Site North_East
> JFK007 10.128.0.24-27 Site North_East
> JFK007 10.128.2.128-175 Site North_East
> JFK003 10.157.192.8-15 Site North_East
> JFK003 10.128.0.40-43 Site North_East
> JFK003 10.128.3.128-175 Site North_East
> JFK005 10.157.192.16-23 Site North_East
> JFK005 10.128.0.48-51 Site North_East
> JFK005 10.128.4.0-47 Site North_East
> JFK001 10.157.192.72-79 Site North_East
> JFK001 10.128.0.72-75 Site North_East
> JFK001 10.128.10.0-127 Site North_East
> JFK031A 10.157.192.24-31 Site North_East
> JFK031A 10.128.0.80-83 Site North_East
> JFK031A 10.128.16.0-255 Site North_East
> JFK032A 10.157.192.88-95 Site North_East
> JFK032A 10.128.0.88-91 Site North_East
>
> Notice I have 6 parent locations. After that I have about 3000 lines
> of nested locations that are formatted exactly like what you see. My
> question is, are my IP ranges formatted correctly? In the manual, they
> only specify the range up to the third octet of the IP address. Is it
> ok to use the fourth octet if you are subnetting at that level?
>
> I would appreciate any comments you might have on how I could improve
> this process. I am discovering the network in pieces via the seedfile
> per you recommendations and that works great! This location stuff is
> holding me up a little though.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Chance
>
>
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