Re: 20060120: 20060119: 20060118: 20060117: GEMPAK decoder installation

> I see that you want your $GEMDATA directory to be /home/data/gempak.
> But, instead of hardcoding that into every gempak pqact.conf line,
> I suggest you create a symbolic link from the data tree under the ~ldm user
> to that location. The pattern files I provide all
> use "data/gempak/" as a relative location. The pqact process run by the LDM
> will use this relative to the ~ldm/ directory. If you currently have a
> ~ldm/data directory, then you will probably find that your gridded
> data has been going to ~ldm/data/gempak/models and not your /home/data/gempak
> tree. That is because the dcgrib2 decoder will use the $GEMTBL/grid/gribkey.tbl
> file for naming its output files.

BTW, I am not getting any gridded data. Or, I can't find it.

> - Re-create your pqact.gempak file using the gen_pqact.csh.
>
> - Stop your ldm.
>
> - Assuming your ~ldm/ directory has a data directory (which is where ldm.pq 
> resides),
>  that is not linked to /home/data:
>
>  remove (or move) the ~ldm/data/gempak directory. I suspect you will find your 
> decoded
>  models data directory in there. If you want, you could move these to the other 
> directory,
>  or just remove the entire tree and let the incoming data populate the files.
>
>  create a symbolic link to /home/data/gempak to ~ldm/data/gempak
>   --- that would look like:
>       cd ~ldm/data
>       ln -s /home/data/gempak .
>
> - restart your LDM

This is done. Still, the only thing that works is the weather text
on weather2.admin.niu.edu, the machine that will be my primary GEMPAK 
machine.

> If you generate a single pqact.gempak configurationh file, then your ldmd.conf
> action for EXEC'ing the pqact doesn't need to specify a subset of feeds (no -f).
> If you use the separate gempak pqact files, then you might be able to improve
> performance by using the subsetted feeds for each pqact process (you can try 
> that later).
>
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support

Hmmm. Is there any chance you could log in and see my etup on weather2?
login is gempak; password, areafiles. LDM login is ldm; password, backup.
I have no clue what could be wrong. I followed the directions minus the 
few soft links I made...

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