20000804: pqact question

>From: ldm <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200008042144.e74LikT15907

>Support:
>   I'm running ldm-5.0.8 on a Linux Pentium III.  I wanted to add the 
>GLOBAL Spectral Model Thinned grids to my product queue.  I added the
>following to my pqact.conf file:
>
>#
># Global AVN (Spectral) Thinned grids
>#
>HRS     ^H.[I-P]... KWBC ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*
>        PIPE    /apps/NAWIPS/bin/linux/dcgrib
>                -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log
>                -g /apps/NAWIPS/gempak5.4/tables
>                -q"lin,dlat=2.5,dlon=2.5"
>                PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_thin.gem
>#
>   When I restarted the ldm, I got this error message:
>Aug 04 21:31:40 met-05 pqact[12422]: feedtype error at line 126: unknown feed
>name in feedtype expression: "HRS     ^H.[I-P]... KWBC ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]
> )
>.*"
>Aug 04 21:31:40 met-05 pqact[12422]: Error in pattern file "/apps/ldm/etc
>/pqact.conf
>
>   Is there something I can do to eliminate this error?
>Thanks,
>   Bob Ballentine
>
>

Bob,

Double check your tab characters that should be between
HRS and ^H.[I-P]
as wee al for all successive lines there, and between PIPE and /apps.

If you copied and pasted from an xterm, chances are, your tabs were 
changed to spaces.


Steve Chiswell