Re: 20020426: DCMETR problems

> David,
>
> You might look back in the logs and see if there are indications that
> more than one instance of dcmetr is running at a time (eg overlapping
> process IDs in the log messages). Pqact could have problems with a pipe
> and end up starting up a new stream if the PIPE had trouble.

I'm not sure if this is the case, but it sounds plausible.  Here's 
the log from dcmetr as recorded with the -d option:

[6298] 020421/0503 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/0504 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/0504 [FL -4]  Cannot read file .[6298] 020421/0611 [FL 
-4]  Cannot
 read file ....
[6298] 020421/0720 [SF -2]  File 
/home/cirrus/a/gemdata/surface/020420_sao.gem c
ould not be opened.
[6298] 020421/1055 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/1056 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/1056 [FL -4]  Cannot read file .[6298] 020421/1211 [FL 
-4]  Cannot
 read file ....
[6298] 020421/2346 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2347 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2348 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2350 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2352 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2353 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2354 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2355 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2356 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020421/2356 [FL -4]  Cannot read file .[6298] 020422/0011 [FL 
-4]  Cannot
 read file ....
[6298] 020422/1133 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020422/1134 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020422/1135 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020422/1136 [FL -4]  Cannot read file ....
[6298] 020422/1136 [FL -4]  Cannot read file .[6298] 020422/1812 [DC 
2]  Termina
te Signal
[6298] 020422/1812 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
[6298] 020422/1812 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 104264
[6298] 020422/1812 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
[5884] 020422/1815 [DC 3]
[5884] 020425/2120 [DC -6]
[5884] 020425/2120 [DC 5]
[5884] 020425/2120 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 125886
[5884] 020425/2120 [DC 6]
[28963] 020425/2121 [DC 3]
[28963] 020425/2306 [FL -4]
[28963] 020425/2308 [FL -4]
[28963] 020425/2309 [FL -4]
[28963] 020425/2[28963] 020426/1537 [DC 2] Terminate Signal
[28963] 020426/1537 [DC 5]
[28963] 020426/1537 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 31308
[28963] 020426/1537 [DC 6]
[11470] 020426/1541 [DC 3]  Starting up.
[11470] 020426/1605 [DC -6]  A time out has occurred.
[11470] 020426/1605 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
[11470] 020426/1605 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 428
[11470] 020426/1605 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
[22235] 020426/1606 [DC 3]  Starting up.
[22235] 020426/1734 [DC 2]  Terminate Signal
[22235] 020426/1734 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
[22235] 020426/1734 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 3309
[22235] 020426/1734 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
[25792] 020426/1735 [DC 3]


I find it odd that sometimes there is two lines of output mixed together.


>  >
> > My pqact entry looks like this:
> >
> > DDS|DDPLUS|IDS  ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])
> >         PIPE    /home/cirrus/a/gempak/NAWIPS-5.6E/bin/linux/dcmetr 
> >         -v 1 -b 9 -m 24
> >         -d /home/cirrus/a/gemdata/logs/dcmetr.log
> >         -p /home/cirrus/a/gempak/NAWIPS-5.6E/gempak/tables/pack/metar.pack
> >         -s 
> > /home/cirrus/a/gempak/NAWIPS-5.6E/gempak/tables/stns/sfmetar_sa.tbl
>  >        /home/cirrus/a/gemdata/surface/YYMMDD_sao.gem
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