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Hi, Steve The output problems is resolved.
You should have files for 200503101230_nldn.gem and 200503101400_nldn.gem. There was 1 flash at 14:20 today to create the 200503101400_nldn.gem file. The other logging you had been seing previously was a result of trying to open either the packing file, or the output file....which won't occur until there are flashes, so can't tell yet until you see logs with nflashes > 0 if the problem is fixed.
crusty:~> find data/gempak/ | grep gem$ | xargs ls -l-rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 702976 Mar 10 17:43 data/gempak/nldn/200503102200_nldn.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 702976 Mar 10 18:07 data/gempak/nldn/200503102230_nldn.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 702976 Mar 10 23:13 data/gempak/nldn/200503102300_nldn.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 702976 Mar 11 02:31 data/gempak/nldn/200503110400_nldn.gem -rw-r--r-- 1 ldm ldm 702976 Mar 11 06:49 data/gempak/nldn/200503110700_nldn.gem crusty:~> grep nflash data/gempak/logs/dcnldn.log | grep -v 0$ | cut -f2,3 -d"]" | uniq | tail -6
050310/1731[DCGNLDN 0] Header len 3 nflash 1 050310/1743[DCGNLDN 0] Header len 3 nflash 1 050310/1807[DCGNLDN 0] Header len 3 nflash 4 050310/1813[DCGNLDN 0] Header len 3 nflash 4 050310/2313[DCGNLDN 0] Header len 3 nflash 1 050311/0231[DCGNLDN 0] Header len 3 nflash 1 Thanks, -- Mark Price System Administrator Advanced Weather Information Systems Lab, UNF (904) 620-2759