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Gustavo, I was able to log in to your system with Tom Yoksas who helped with your setup. The problem I find is that your data arriving via LDM is very far behind. Very little data is making it to the GEMPAK data file, and your script which sets the plot hour through `date -u +%H` is not finding any available data in the GEMPAK file for which to plot. I ran a test of your script from the /tmp/test directory where the HOUR was set to 06Z (approximately 14 hours old) and was able to produce a gif output. Using the current hour fails due to your lack of current data. The GEMPAK command "sfctime metar" will show you what data times are available in your current metar dta file which you can see is generally far behind the present time. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support > Unidata'support, > > It seems there is a problem with our software or system, > (Buenos Aires University, Argentina). > > For a reason our scripts are not running any more. We changed to > GEMPAK5.10.2 version; the previous one worked all right. > > By running them directly from a session > it works all right, from the command line; > wiht the crontab doesn't. > > By the way, there is just one script that works with crontab. > It generates ascii files instead of images. > > Ive asked to gempaks mailing list but Im not sure if this problem > belongs to them or if its a general problem. Well, can you help us? The > account we are using for running this is gempak. > > > Thank you!!!, > > Gustavo > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XIQ-763682 Department: Support GEMPAK Priority: Normal Status: Closed