frost.wunderground.com being retired

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• Subject: frost.wunderground.com being retired
• From: Jeff Masters <jmasters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 20:07:32 -0400 (EDT)

If you are feeding from frost.wunderground.com, you need to change your
REQUEST line to:

berry.wunderground.com

frost.wunderground.com is due to be retired tonight. Right now, it
only looks like stokes.metr.ou.edu is feeding from us (FNEXRAD).

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>From owner-ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 10 2003 Apr -0500 15:48:10 
Date: 10 Apr 2003 15:48:10 -0500
From: "Neil R. Smith" <neils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Wisconsin difax map printing from LDM 6.0.10 on FreeBSD
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Hi folks, 
I'm stumped here on something that used to work on our SGI IRIX box
running LDM 5.2 but is not working on its replacement box, a dual Xeon
box running FreeBSD 4.7. It's the printing of the UW-Madison difax maps
via a pqact entry piping the gziped postscript files to Pete Pokrandt's
'printmap.csh' script, which is just a gunzip of stdin piped to an lpr
or lp command.

Here's an example pqact.conf entry:
DIFAX   ^one.avn4panel.*.ps.gz
        PIPE    -close /usr/local/ldm/util/printmap.csh

With the printmap.csh line being executed:
/usr/bin/gzip -dc | /usr/bin/lp -d difax
where 'difax' is the printer.

Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pbuf_flush (8) write: Broken pipe
Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pipe_dbufput:
-close/usr/local/ldm/util/printmap.csh write error
Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pipe_prodput: trying again
Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pbuf_flush (8) write: Broken pipe
Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: pipe_dbufput:
-close/usr/local/ldm/util/pr
intmap.csh write error
Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: child 27712 exited with status 1
Apr 09 17:45:03 weather pqact[80722]: child 27708 exited with status 1

What really confuses me is that I can manually print the gzipped .ps map
(I'm also FILE'ing the product, so I have it on disk). eg:
cat one_avn4panel_12Z_850fcst.ps.gz | printmap.csh
or 
/usr/bin/gzip -dc one_avn4panel_12Z_850fcst.ps.gz | /usr/bin/lp -d difax
generate a printout on that printer just fine.

Any suggestions?
-- 
Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.         neils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ. 979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466