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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:35:10 +0000 (GMT) From: David J. Knight <address@hidden> To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden> Subject: Re: 20000124: gribtonc decoder Rob, Well, that was easy! Just had to add netcdf/bin to the $path and it worked fine from the command line. I expect it will work now from the ldm as well. Thanks! David > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Unidata Support wrote: > > > >To: address@hidden > > >cc: address@hidden > > >From: "David J. Knight" <address@hidden> > > >Subject: gribtonc decoder > > >Organization: . > > >Keywords: 200001241809.LAA08729 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to file grib products in netcdf format in prepration for > > testing the mettapps grid file veiwer. But it's not working for me... > > > > Here is my entry in pqact.conf: > > # file in netcdf format for metapps application testing > > HRS ^[YZ].Q... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/mETA > > PIPE /unidata/bin/gribtonc > > -v -l /nmc2/nmc2/gribtonc.log > > /unidata/ldm-5.0.8/etc/eta.cdl > > /nmc2/nmc2/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_eta.nc > > HRS ^[YZ].Q... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/mETA > > FILE /nmc2/nmc2/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_eta.netcdf > > > > These are the errors I'm getting: > > > > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: Starting Up > > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: can't run "ncgen -o > > David, > > Yep, you need to have ncgen to run gribtonc. If fact you need to install > NetCDF and udunits to build gribtonc. If you already have NetCDF and > udunits installed, then the $PATH variable needs to be able to find the > ncgen. It's a good test to run gribtonc from the command line first, > catches many of the errors. The NetCDF package is on our UPC home page, > the udunits package is with the NetCDF package. > > Robb... > > > > > > > /nmc2/nmc2/00012400_eta.nc / > > unidata/ldm-5.0.8/etc/eta.cdl" > > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: can't create or size 0 output netCDF > > file /nmc2/ > > nmc2/00012400_eta.nc, exiting > > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: Exiting > > Jan 24 02:37:34 gribtonc[4136]: 0 WMO msgs, 0 GRIBs decoded, 0 written > > > > It appears that the netcdf grid file cannot be created. I get the same > > error message when attempting to manually decode the grib file. > > > > I don't think it is a permission problem - there is no problem creating > > files in that directory. > > > > Is ncgen supposed to be a seperate executable? If so that might be the > > problem since I don't have it... > > > > I'm running ldm5.08 on Solaris2.6 with decoders-2.3.6. > > > > Can you help? > > Thanks > > David > > > > > > David Knight > > Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Tel: (518)-442-4204 > > SUNYA ES-228 Fax: (518)-442-4494 > > Albany, NY 12222 Email: address@hidden > > > > =============================================================================== > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > =============================================================================== >