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199928: sflist core dump

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  • Subject: 199928: sflist core dump
  • Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 10:53:04 -0700
>From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>Keywords: 199902081729.KAA15779

>Steve,
>
>Our meteograms stopped running last night and while I was diagnosing the
>problem this morning, I kept getting core dumps. What I do is list the
>data from yesterday and today using sflist and place the output into a
>file. Then I combine the file and create a gempak management file from
>that. That way, every time the program runs, a 24 hour meteogram is
>created.
>
>The core dump occurs while I do an sflist on today's data. Since it is
>today's data, it would likely occur even if I wasn't running the sflist
>program. When I list data from /0200, the data core dumps. I am guessing
>that there is some "garbage" in the data file sometime between 0200 and
>0300 (i can list 0300 fine).
>
>I tried using sfdelt to delete all of 0200 from the file (so at least
>the program could get through everything without core dumping) but that
>doesn't seem to help. There are still some 0200 times in the file. Any
>ideas? Even better would be ideas as to why this happened and how it can
>be prevented.
>
>Thanks
>
>Maureen
>
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>
>Maureen Moore Ballard                   address@hidden
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>Ag. Weather Center                         fax: 606-257-5671
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>University of Kentucky
>Lexington, KY 40546-0276
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>
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>

Maureen,

I don't have any core dumps with today's surface file. Can you ftp me your
file so I can see if I can track the problem down? Stick it in
~gbuddy/incoming.

Steve Chiswell