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>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200405311647.i4VGlNtK006820 GEMPAK gpnexr2 Hi Gerry, Chiz and I talked about the NEXRAD Level II and III setup on bigbird earlier today. We decided that it was better to have things setup so that you don't have to modify $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl each time you install a new GEMPAK distribution. Instead, I changed where both the Level II and Level III files are being stored on bigbird. Previously, I had things setup to FILE into directories that follow: /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/craft/ccyymmdd/... /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/ccyymmdd/... Things are now setup as: /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/craft_all/ccyymmdd/... /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/NIDS_all/ccyymmdd/... and /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/craft -> /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/craft_all/ccyymmdd /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/NIDS -> /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/NIDS_all/ccyymmdd The links are (re)created once per hour by a CShell script run out of cron: # # Create link to current CRAFT and NIDS dierctories # 06 * * * * util/idd_link.csh craft 07 * * * * util/idd_link.csh NIDS The downside to this configuration is that two pqact.conf files in ~ldm/etc need to be maintained: pqact.gempak_craft pqact.gempak_nexrad The maintenance involves having things filed to: /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/craft_all/ccyymmdd /data/ldm/gempak/nexrad/NIDS_all/ccyymmdd Since GEMPAK comes with a script that creates pqact.conf files for the various data types, and since the intention is for the user that installs a new GEMPAK distribution to recreate the pqact.conf files, we felt that it was better to rename the configuration files that get local modifications and also to change the pqact entries in ldmd.conf. The NEXRAD and CRAFT actions in ldmd.conf are now: exec "pqact -f NNEXRAD|WSI|FNEXRAD etc/pqact.gempak_nexrad.tamu" exec "pqact -f CRAFT -p BZIP2/K[A-D] etc/pqact.gempak_craft.tamu" exec "pqact -f CRAFT -p BZIP2/K[E-K] etc/pqact.gempak_craft.tamu" exec "pqact -f CRAFT -p BZIP2/K[L-R] etc/pqact.gempak_craft.tamu" exec "pqact -f CRAFT -p BZIP2/K[S-Z] etc/pqact.gempak_craft.tamu" and the matching configuration files are: ~ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_nexrad.tamu ~ldm/etc/pqact.gempak_craft.tamu I hope that this makes sense to you. If not, please let me know and I will take another run at explaining it. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.