20040920: Changing pqact.conf

>From: Local Data Manager <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200409202219.i8KMJknJ026598

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>Hello.
>
>I am upgrading GEMPAK from 5.6j to 5.7.2p2.  I am unclear on how to alter the 
> pqact.conf in order to make the most of these changes.  Simp[ly installing th
> e pqact.conf generated by the script in the new GEMPAK distribution has no af
> fect.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Pat 
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> 
>
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Pat,

The pqact.conf lines generated from the GEMPAK script can be 
installed (merged or copied) to your ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf file.

When changes are made to your pqact.conf file, use the LDM commands:
ldmadmin pqactcheck
ldmadmin pqactHUP

to check your pqact.conf, and notify your running pqact process to reread
the configuration file respectively.

Alternately, if your pqact.conf file is complicated with many processing 
actions for other packages etc, then you can create separate "exec" lines
in the LDM's etc/ldmd.conf to run different pqact processes for separate 
pqact.conf
files generated from gen_pqact.csh so that when upgrading GEMPAK, you don't 
have to
modify merge GEMPAK lines in with your other actions.

Steve Chiswell
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