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>From: Michael Keables <address@hidden> >Organization: DU >Keywords: 200401141924.i0EJO8p2025290 McIDAS upgrade Mike, >Thanks for the quick response. No worries. I wish I could have been quicker, but... >Yes, please set up a user account for which I can then duplicate the >settings for the rest of the students. username is aabley. OK. I touched up the setup in the aabley account, but to tell you the truth, I didn't find much to change there. Where I did find that changes were needed was in the 'mcidas' account. Here is what I did there: - downloaded the McIDAS addendum that was released in November. This contains some fixes that was causing some of the strange things you were mentioning. In particular, it takes care of the problem in correctly generating the .mcidasrc file on first startup. Now, when a user first runs McIDAS, preferentially by: mcidas -config and selects use of the MCGUI, that option gets written into .mcidasrc. It didn't dawn on me that some of the strange things you were seeing was related to this needed update. It doesn't address all of your concerns (like the number of colors available under VNC), but it does take care of a number. - downloaded the McIDAS BATCH file UPRTE.BAT to your ~mcidas/workdata directory and made the additions in it active in your routing table: BATCH UPRTE.BAT - updated your ADDE dataset serving setup in ~mcidas/data/LSSERVE.BAT so that the new images that were added to the Unidata-Wisconsin datasetream can be served: downloaded new copies of DSSERVE.BAT, DSSERVEOLD.BAT, and ADDEIMAGE.CORE to your ~mcidas/data directory. Merged in previous setup information in the existing ~mcidas/data/LSSERVE.BAT into a new LSSERVE.BAT that includes the new imagery: mv LSSERVE.BAT LSSERVE.BAT.bak cp DSSERVEOLD.BAT LSSERVE.BAT <merge settings from LSSERVE.BAT.bak into the new LSSERVE.BAT> Made all of those changes active with: cd ~mcidas/workdata batch.k LSSERVE.BAT - updated the existing ~mcidas/data LOCDATA.BAT with the new datasets that are accessible through the MCGUI: cd ~mcidas/data cp DATALOC.BAT LOCDATA.BAT <edit LOCDATA.BAT and set pointing to cyclone for the datasets that cyclone has; pointed to external ADDE servers for other datsets> cd ~mcidas/workdata batch.k LOCDATA.BAT - updated the set of file REDIRECTions needed for v2003: cd ~mcidas/data cp EXAMPLE.NAM LOCAL.NAM <edit LOCAL.NAM to set the directories to match your installation (i.e., /data/ldm/mcidas)> cd ~mcidas/workdata redirect.k REST LOCAL.NAM - updated the XCD decoding table, ~mcidas/workdata/DECINFO.DAT: cd ~mcidas/workdata rm DECINFO.DAT decinfo.k LIST The last step created a new decoding table that matches the v2003 capabilities. In practice, this won't do much to your setup, but it is wise to keep the decoding table matched with the McIDAS installation. As the user 'ldm': - since I installed newly built XCD decoders, I stopped and restarted the LDM. This is a wise thing to do after any McIDAS-XCD update One thing I noticed in the ~ldm/ldmd.conf file was that you had not change the request for MCIDAS data to ask for images twice per hour. You are still getting images once per hour. Your request does allow you to get all of the imager channels in the datastream, but not at the frequence that they are being updated. You don't have to switc your setup, but you might want to. To change the request from once-per-hour to twice-per-hour, change the ldmd.conf request line from: request MCIDAS "pnga2area Q[01]" rainbow.al.noaa.gov to: request MCIDAS ".*" rainbow.al.noaa.gov One thing to consider, before making this change: you are using the old routing table method for data ingestion. This setup keeps 10 of each kind of image received in the UNIWISC (the now official name of the Unidata-Wisconsin images also known as MCIDAS) stream. If you change from getting images once per hour to twice per hour, you will end up with half the number of hours of images online. Some don't think that this is a problem, some do. If you do decide to modify your UNIWISC request, remember that after modifing ldmd.conf, you must stop and restart the LDM for the change to take effect: <as 'ldm'> ldmadmin stop ldmadmin start >Re: "old GUI", I guess I meant GUI vs. MCGUI (didn't realise both guis were >available.) This is most likely due the problems that were fixed in the addendum that I loaded for you. Now when you run: mcidas -config it is clear that there are two GUIs, the Fkey menu, and nothing that can be selected. Back to the setup for the user aabley: I did the following there: - removed ~/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT; now aabley gets its dataset pointing (DATALOC) information from the file ~mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT that 'mcidas' setup (see the above comments about LOCDATA.BAT). After doing this, I made sure that aabley can access the datasets setup by 'mcidas' and the other ones maintained at remote ADDE server sites. - deleted ~aabley/.mcidasrc and remade it from the new template included in the addendum: <as aabley> cd ~ rm .mcidasrc mcidasx I loaded and then changed the number of image colors from 64 to 48. This should help, if not fix, the VNC problem with numbers of colors. Well, that's enough for now. Please let me know if you find anything strange/not working. >Thanks! No worries. Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. 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