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Chris, You probably need to create the $GEMDATA/acars directory. Steve >From: "C. Vandersip" <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 200001061853.LAA02101 >Steve, > >I've got dcacars up and running now, but I'm getting the following output >in dcacars.log: > >Jan 06 18:31:22 dcacars[20710]: Starting up >Jan 06 18:31:23 dcacars[20710]: ACARS data, encrypted tail numbers, >version 2.1 >Jan 06 18:31:23 dcacars[20710]: No pressure variable, will calculate >Jan 06 18:31:25 dcacars[20710]: Could not open gempak file >data/gempak/acars/200001061800_acars.gem >Jan 06 18:31:25 dcacars[20710]: Exiting >Jan 06 18:40:48 dcacars[29038]: Starting up >Jan 06 18:40:49 dcacars[29038]: ACARS data, encrypted tail numbers, >version 2.1 >Jan 06 18:40:49 dcacars[29038]: No pressure variable, will calculate >Jan 06 18:40:50 dcacars[29038]: Could not open gempak file >data/gempak/acars/200001061834_acars.gem >Jan 06 18:40:50 dcacars[29038]: Exiting > >Does dcacars try to read a previous acars file as it decodes a current >file? Since ours is brand new, there are no *acars.gem files in the >directory yet for it to read. Here's my pqact.conf setup: > > PCWS ^FSL\.NetCDF\.ACARS\.QC\.([0-9]+)\.* > FILE -close /export/data/FSL_ACARS/\1.acars > PCWS ^FSL\.NetCDF\.ACARS\.QC > PIPE -close /nawips/bin/sol/dcacars -v -b 30 > -e GEMTBL=/nawips/gempak-5.4/tables > -l logs/dcacars.log > data/gempak/acars/YYYYMMDDHHNN_acars.gem > >Thanks, > >Chris > > ############################################################### > # Chris Vandersip # > # Computer Research Specialist/Dept. Sysadmin # > # Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University # > # address@hidden (850)644-2522 # > ############################################################### >