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Hi Hsie, re: slightly modify your testing > Do as you suggested. Make no difference. OK. I did not expect a change; I wanted to make sure, however, to point out that one should always run McIDAS commands from his/her $MCDATA directory. re: Questions > squall:[70]% cd /home/mcidas/linux > squall:[71]% ls -l > total 128 > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 admin > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 12288 Jan 24 11:21 bin > drwxrwxr-x 3 mcidas unidata 20480 Jan 24 14:10 data > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 etc > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 12288 May 2 2006 help > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 inc > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 include > drwxrwxr-x 3 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 lib > drwxrwxr-x 4 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 man > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 savedata > drwxrwxr-x 6 mcidas unidata 4096 May 2 2006 tcl > drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 4096 Jan 25 01:20 workdata > squall:[72]% cd /home/hsie > squall:[73]% ls -ld mcidas > drwxr-xr-x 3 hsie al4 4096 Dec 3 09:17 mcidas > squall:[74]% cd mcidas > squall:[75]% ls -l > total 8 > drwxr-xr-x 2 hsie al4 4096 Jan 25 12:45 data > squall:[76]% This all look correct. re: environment variables needed for McIDAS > MCHOME=/home/mcidas/linux > MCDATA=/home/hsie/mcidas/data > MCPATH=/home/hsie/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/linux/data:/home/mcidas/linux/help > MCGUI=/home/mcidas/linux/bin > MCTABLE_READ=/home/hsie/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT;/home/mcidas/linux/data/ADDESITE.TXT > MCTABLE_WRITE=/home/hsie/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT > MCCOMPRESS=TRUE The only change I suggest here is to change MCCOMPRESS from TRUE to GZIP. This is optional since your machine has 'compress' and 'uncompress' installed and both are accessible to the 'mcidas' user through its defined PATH. re: recommendation to run current McIDAS release > I had been using this machine for last summer's field experiment. All > the softwares I need are already installed in this machine (LDM, > McIDAS-X, GEMPAK). The 2005 version will serve my purpose. Very good. I logged onto squall this morning to snoop around. Here is what I found: - as you noted in your original email, I can run DATALOC (dataloc.k) with no problems as 'mcidas' - since I couldn't become the user 'hsie' to see what may be going on in that account, I became 'ldm' and ran some tests there: <login as 'ldm'> cd /home/ldm mkdir mcidas mkdir mcidas/data cd /home/ldm/mcidas/data squall:[59]% dataloc.k LIST Group Name Server IP Address -------------------- ---------------------------------------- AMRC UWAMRC.SSEC.WISC.EDU BLIZZARD ADDE.UCAR.EDU CIMSS SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV GINICOMP SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV GINIEAST SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV GINIWEST SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV GOESEAST UNIDATA2.SSEC.WISC.EDU ME7 IO.SCA.UQAM.CA MYDATA <LOCAL-DATA> NEXRCOMP SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV PUB GP16.SSD.NESDIS.NOAA.GOV RTGINI <LOCAL-DATA> RTGRIDS SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV RTIMAGES SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV RTNEXRAD SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV RTPTSRC SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV RTWXTEXT SQUALL.AL.NOAA.GOV TOPO <LOCAL-DATA> <LOCAL-DATA> indicates that data will be accessed from the local data directory. DATALOC -- done As you can see, a DATALOC command run as 'ldm' works as expected. This tells me that the problem you encountered trying to run McIDAS as 'hsie' is related to some setting in the 'hsie' account, or that you found and fixed the problem after sending me your reply yesterday (did you find a problem?). So, without access to the 'hsie' account, I can proceed no further on troubleshooting the problem you reported. Next: While logged into squall as 'ldm', I decided to see if I could access data in the various datasets that are defined. These attempts met with varying success. Here is one example of a failure: <logged in as 'ldm'> setenv MCPATH /home/ldm/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/linux/data:/home/mcidas/linux/help cd /home/ldm/mcidas/data squall:[60]% imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR imglist.k: No images satisfy the selection criteria imglist.k: done The inability to list RTIMAGES images indicated that there was some problem in the RTIMAGES dataset definition or there were no files to list. The same comment applies to GINIEAST, GINIWEST, GINICOMP, etc. I was, however, able to list out images from the NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT dataset: squall:[77]% imglist.k NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT FORM=ALL Image file directory listing for:NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s) sensor Lat Lon --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ 301 RADAR 26 JAN 08026 16:34:00 TWX 1 imglist.k: done A quick check shows that you are writing images to a different directory structure than is specified for some of the ADDE datasets: <as 'mcidas'> cd $MCDATA dsserve.k LIST GINIEAST ... GINIEAST/GE4KIR IMAGE GINI GINI 4 km 10.7 um East CONU S DIRFILE=/wrk/data1/ldm/sat/gini/EAST-CONUS/4km/IR/IR ... This entry, for example, tells McIDAS to look in the /wrk/data1/ldm/sat/gini/EAST-CONUS/4km/IR directory for GOES-East IR (10.7 um) images from NOAAPORT (IDD feedtype NIMAGE). The ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf action, on the other hand, is writing those images as follows: # Zlib compressed NOAAPORT GOES-East/West GINI images NIMAGE ^satz/ch[0-9]/.*/(.*)/([12][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([01][0-9])([0-3][0-9]) ([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9])/(.*)/(.*km)/ PIPE -close decoder/bin/zlibg2gini -vl logs/png.log data/sat/gini/\8/\9/\1/\1_\2\3\4\5_\6\7 The ~ldm/data directory is a link: squall:[51]% ls -alt data lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm unidata 17 Jun 20 2007 data -> /export/data1/ldm If you intend to keep the LDM decoding actions the same, you will need to modify the ADDE dataset definitions in the 'mcidas' account. Also, your ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf file does not have any action(s) to process UNIWISC imagery (aka MCIDAS LDM feedtype), so access to the RTIMAGES datasets will always result in messages like: squall:[56]% imglist.k RTIMAGES/GE-IR Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR imglist.k: No images satisfy the selection criteria imglist.k: done On the bright side, data from the RTPTSRC and RTGRIDS datasets are accessible and look correct: squall:[59]% ptlist.k RTPTSRC/PTSRCS FORM=FILE ALL Pos Description Schema NRows NCols Proj# Created DataDate ------ -------------------------------- ------ ----- ----- ----- ------- -------- 4 SAO/METAR data for 24 JAN 2008 ISFC 72 7000 0 2008024 2008024 5 SAO/METAR data for 25 JAN 2008 ISFC 72 7000 0 2008024 2008025 6 SAO/METAR data for 26 JAN 2008 ISFC 72 7000 0 2008025 2008026 14 Mand. Level RAOB for 24 JAN 2008 IRAB 8 1500 0 2008024 2008024 15 Mand. Level RAOB for 25 JAN 2008 IRAB 8 1500 0 2008024 2008025 16 Mand. Level RAOB for 26 JAN 2008 IRAB 8 1500 0 2008025 2008026 24 Sig. Level RAOB for 24 JAN 2008 IRSG 16 6000 0 2008024 2008024 25 Sig. Level RAOB for 25 JAN 2008 IRSG 16 6000 0 2008024 2008025 26 Sig. Level RAOB for 26 JAN 2008 IRSG 16 6000 0 2008025 2008026 34 SHIP/BUOY data for 24 JAN 2008 ISHP 24 2000 0 2008024 2008024 35 SHIP/BUOY data for 25 JAN 2008 ISHP 24 2000 0 2008025 2008025 36 SHIP/BUOY data for 26 JAN 2008 ISHP 24 2000 0 2008026 2008026 54 SYNOPTIC data for 24 JAN 2008 SYN 8 6500 0 2008024 2008024 55 SYNOPTIC data for 25 JAN 2008 SYN 8 6500 0 2008024 2008025 56 SYNOPTIC data for 26 JAN 2008 SYN 8 6500 0 2008025 2008026 ptlist.k: Done squall:[60]% dsinfo.k G RTGRIDS Dataset Names of Type: GRID in Group: RTGRIDS Name NumPos Content ------------ ------ -------------------------------------- ALL 1210 Real-Time Grids AVN 200 Real-Time AVN Grids ECMWF 10 Real-Time ECMWF Grids ETA 120 Real-Time ETA Grids GFS 200 Real-Time GFS/AVN Grids MDR 10 Real-Time MDR/AVN Grids MISC 10 Other Real-Time Grids MRF 200 Real-Time MRF Grids MRF-UW 10 MRF Grids in UW stream NAM 120 Real-Time NAM Grids NGM 40 Real-Time NGM Grids NGM-UW 10 NGM Grids in UW stream RUC 80 Real-Time RUC Grids UKMT 110 Real-Time UK Met Grids DSINFO -- done squall:[61]% grdlist.k RTGRIDS/GFS Dataset position 5 Directory Title= ALL 00Z GFS 0 HR<=VT<=24 HR PAR LEVEL DAY TIME SRC FHOUR FDAY FTIME GRID PRO ---- --------- ------------ -------- ---- ----- ------------ -------- ----- ---- T 850 MB 25 JAN 08025 00:00:00 GFS 12 25 JAN 08025 12:00:00 1 MERC Number of grids listed = 1 GRDLIST - done Wrap-up: - the McIDAS v2005d installation on squall is working correctly - the ADDE remote server on squall is working correctly (I even tested this from the 'mcidas' account on cirrus) - I can not explain why DATALOC (dataloc.k) hangs from the 'hsie' account; it works correctly from the 'mcidas' and 'ldm' accounts on squall. I could troubleshoot further if I had login access as 'hsie' on squall. - there is still work to be done to process UNIWISC imagery in the LDM if you actually want those images - you will need to either adjust your LDM pqact.conf actions for NIMAGE data or adjust your ADDE dataset definitions if you want to access imagery in the GINIEAST, GINIWEST, and GINICOMP datasets Cheers, Tom **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: YSZ-272620 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed