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Re: 20020225: ingestion difficulty

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  • Subject: Re: 20020225: ingestion difficulty
  • Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:57:18 -0600
Steve,

>What are your pqact.conf entries for dcmetr and dcuair?
>Are you using the -e GEMTBL=path feature to set the
>environmental variable GEMTBL within pqact.conf, or are you
>relying on the decoder inheriting the variable from the LDM user 
>environment?
>
>Your statement regarding the use of the ldmfail script sounds like when
>your ldm is restarted by the script, you are lacking some
>of the enviroment that you have in the LDM user account when
>your restart the LDM.
>
>Are you logging the decoder output to a log file? If the decoder is not able
>to find tables then you will see "[FL -#] errers most likely.
>
>If you aren't using the -e flag to set the environmental variables such
>as is shown in the pqact.conf examples:
>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl
>I would suggest making that change so that your pqact.conf files are
>independent of the .cshrc or .profileenvironment of the LDM user.

I haven't been using the -e argument, and am getting the error message
you predict.  I will add the -e, and see if the problem goes away.
Thanks.