20000106: dcacars: Could not open gempak file

Chris,

You probably need to create the $GEMDATA/acars directory.

Steve


>From: "C. Vandersip" <address@hidden>
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>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
>
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