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  • Subject: 20000512: csh script on cron
  • Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 12:53:25 -0600
>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
>Organization: Ohio State
>Keywords: 200005102101.e4AL1K425101 gemglb.nts scripts

Chris-

>I listed out all of the last.nts files and don't see anything out of the
>ordinary, nor with the May 7 date.  FYI, I have run jobs in the cron
>successfully until a few days ago (not sure of the exact date), using the
>same scripts that fail now.  The only major change I had was to start
>using Xvfb, but I don't see how that would affect things.  

In the home directory of the gempak account I used, there is a gemglb.nts
file that has duplicate entries (I'm not sure how that happened).  I've 
attached a copy to this message.  If you look, there are duplicate entries
for SFFILE and GDFILE (as well as many others):

SFFILE  /usr/local/ldm/data/surface/20000512_sao.gem
GDFILE  /usr/local/gempak/grids/current_analy.grd
SFFILE  /usr/local/ldm/data/mos/2000050712_nmos.gem
GDFILE  /usr/local/ldm/data/hds/2000050700_eta_grid211.gem

I'd guess that it uses the last one of a variable it finds in the 
file, that's why you keep seeing the errors about the files from 
the 7th not existing.  The quick solution is to delete gemglb.nts.

As I mentioned earlier, it is better to have the script cd to a
specific directory so it doesn't conflict with other scripts.  Here
is a message from Chiz to someone else from the archives on a way 
to do this:

>Often when I have lots of scripts to run, I make each of them create
>their own temporary working directory using the process number, eg:
>
>cd $GEMDATA/tmp
>set WORK=ruc_gdplot.$$
>mkdir $WORK
>cd $WORK
>
>.....
>
>rm -f *
>cd ..
>rmdir $WORK


bad gemglb.nts:

$RESPONDyes
SFFILE  /usr/local/ldm/data/surface/20000512_sao.gem
AREA    @zzv
DATTIM  all
SFPARM  text
OUTPUT  f//usr/local/gempak/html/metar/ohio/zzv/20000512
IDNTYP  STID
MAP     32
GAREA   38.0;-87.0;42.0;-78.0
PROJ    STR/90.0;-95.0;0.0
SATFIL
RADFIL
LATLON  0
PANEL   0
TITLE   32/-2/Observed Sea Level Pressure (mb) ^ UTC
TEXT    1/32//HW
CLEAR   NO
DEVICE  gf
RCMFIL  /tmp/tmprad.602
RADTIM  current
RADDUR  50
DITHER  0
MESO    17/2/1/2/hw
TVS     2/1/1/2/hw
CNTR    0
MAXTOP  31
RADINFO 0
ECHO    1
CLRBAR  1/h/cc/.45;.06
$MAPFIL
COLORS  14
MARKER  0
FILTER  YES
SKPMIS  NO
LUTFIL  DEFAULT
STNPLT
GDATTIM last
GLEVEL  0
GVCORD  none
GFUNC   pmsl
GDFILE  /usr/local/gempak/grids/current_analy.grd
CINT    2
LINE    32/1/2
SCALE   0
HILO
HLSYM   2;1/31//HW
CONTUR  3/3
SKIP    0
FINT
FLINE
CTYPE   C
LSTALL
GVECT   WND
WIND    bk31
REFVEC
$RESPONDyes
SFFILE  /usr/local/ldm/data/mos/2000050712_nmos.gem
AREA    @jbr
DATTIM  all
SFPARM  text
OUTPUT  f//usr/local/gempak/html/text/ngmmos/jbr.nmos
IDNTYP  STID
MAP     32
GAREA   13;-125;55;-52
PROJ    lcc
SATFIL
RADFIL
LATLON  0
PANEL   ur
TITLE   32/-2/ETA 850 mb Height (m) Valid at ~
TEXT    .8/32//HW
CLEAR   NO
DEVICE  gf|/usr/local/apache/htdocs/models/eta/eta_4panel_f048.gif
RCMFIL  /tmp/tmprad.602
RADTIM  current
RADDUR  50
DITHER  0
MESO    17/2/1/2/hw
TVS     2/1/1/2/hw
CNTR    0
MAXTOP  31
RADINFO 0
ECHO    1
CLRBAR
$MAPFIL
COLORS  101=white
MARKER  0
FILTER  YES
SKPMIS  NO
LUTFIL  DEFAULT
STNPLT
GDATTIM f048
GLEVEL  850
GVCORD  PRES
GFUNC   sm9s(sm9s(hght))
GDFILE  /usr/local/ldm/data/hds/2000050700_eta_grid211.gem
CINT    40
LINE    32//2
SCALE   0
HILO
HLSYM
CONTUR  0
SKIP    0
FINT
FLINE
CTYPE   C
LSTALL
GVECT   WND
WIND    bk31
REFVEC
GDNUM   all
GRDNAM
DTAAREA
GUESS
GAMMA   0.3
SEARCH  20/EX
NPASS   2