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20010315: Problem with dcgrib2 (fwd)

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  • Subject: 20010315: Problem with dcgrib2 (fwd)
  • Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:57:04 -0700

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:56:21 -0700
From: Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
To: Greg Stossmeister <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Problem with dcgrib2


Greg,

dcgrib (and dcgrib) need the location of $GEMTBL, which you can
either set as an environmental variable in the script (this is what
sourcing Gemenviron does in an interactive csh session),
or add a command line option to the incovation of the decoder:
-e GEMTBL=path

Steve CHiswell
Unidata User Support

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Greg Stossmeister wrote:

> Steve,
>    I know this is probably a stupid question - I have a script that runs
> dcgrib2 and it works fine when I run the job from a window, when cron
> runs this same script it produces the following problem. What am I
> missing so dcgrib2 will know wher to find everything??
> 
> Thanks,
>    Greg
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Output from "cron" command
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 01:10:06 -0700 (MST)
> From: Greg Stossmeister <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> 
> Your "cron" job on storm
> (cd /home/stoss/perl; ./nogaps2gem.pl )
> 
> produced the following output:
> 
> Trun is: 2001031500 , Tdate is: 20010315 
> /raid1/stoss/nogaps/nogaps_current.gem: No such file or directory
> cat US058*.2001031500 | /usr/local/gempak5.6/bin/sol/dcgrib2 -v 1
> /raid1/stoss/nogaps/YYYYMMDDHH_nogaps.gem
> [24884] 010315/0110 [DC 3]
> [24884] 010315/0110 [NA -1] cntrgrib1.tbl
> [24884] 010315/0110 [DCGRIB -51] can't open grib tables [NA -51], set
> GEMTBL
> [24884] 010315/0110 [DC 5]
> [24884] 010315/0110 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
> [24884] 010315/0110 [DC 6]
>  Changing center table to cntrgrib1.tbl
>