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>From: "David J. Travis" <address@hidden> >Organization: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater >Keywords: 199907301755.LAA07700 IDD David, >We have not been receiving any satellite imagery this week (none since July >25th). However, other data feeds seem to be active. For instance, we have >lightning data feeds up to the minute. Our IDD topology list for the MCIDAS feed shows that UWW should be fed by sunset.meteor.wisc.edu. >Any idea what's going on? A quick 'notifyme' to the Wisconsin machine shows that they are getting the imagery data: (zero:ldm) 43 % notifyme -vxl- -o 3600 -f MCIDAS -h sunset.meteor.wisc.edu Jul 30 18:30:57 notifyme[20595]: Starting Up: sunset.meteor.wisc.edu: 19990730173057.745 TS_ENDT {{MCIDAS, ".*"}} NOTIFYME(sunset.meteor.wisc.edu) returns OK Jul 30 18:31:01 notifyme[20595]: NOTIFYME(sunset.meteor.wisc.edu): OK Jul 30 18:31:01 notifyme[20595]: defcdbb8b22111bb1858bcddf53cf824 429852 19990730173225.639 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 161 DIALPROD=UA 99211 173223 Jul 30 18:31:02 notifyme[20595]: dc009b5a17e541229f7cd0d0407a5daa 368001 19990730173425.809 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 61 DIALPROD=UC 99211 173415 Jul 30 18:31:03 notifyme[20595]: c92bfc9dd5d06726c9cb575e211292c8 1359485 19990730173639.423 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 151 DIALPROD=UI 99211 173608 Jul 30 18:31:03 notifyme[20595]: 67dbf6f16f7bda570f148cce0f393ea7 234607 19990730173706.512 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 211 DIALPROD=UW 99211 173655 Jul 30 18:31:03 notifyme[20595]: c003181f21504aafae47abf163900cc5 2152351 19990730173725.922 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 141 DIALPROD=UV 99211 173656 Jul 30 18:31:10 notifyme[20595]: 021c93e0e703ed63976c81dc425adb5c 47422 19990730180708.456 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 205 DIALPROD=U3 99211 180700 Jul 30 18:31:11 notifyme[20595]: 5bbf4c14b7ec5dcd8f278bb792c3e136 189670 19990730181041.165 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 193 DIALPROD=U1 99211 181034 Jul 30 18:31:12 notifyme[20595]: 431dd441a80a769a9ea82121b0174e17 222280 19990730181619.572 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 172 DIALPROD=UB 99211 181615 Jul 30 18:31:12 notifyme[20595]: ce99e130ad4ec064d1b085e036d4a8e6 1318123 19990730181635.352 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 132 DIALPROD=U5 99211 181617 Jul 30 18:31:12 notifyme[20595]: efd22261be0332bcc7771c5e81c0cd27 2305635 19990730181712.707 MCIDAS 000 LWTOA3 122 DIALPROD=U9 99211 181644 This means that either: o you are not requesting the data from them or o they are denying you So, the questions for you are: o on what machine(s) are you not getting the data (i.e. Linux or OS/2) o are you sure that are still requesting the data; if yes, and if on your OS/2 machine then look in Text Window 4 and see if there are error messages every five minutes telling you that your feed request has been denied Don logged onto your machine and took a quick look. The fact that you were getting HRS data from sunset.meteor.wisc.edu but not MCIDAS did not make any sense given that there were no RECLASS messages when you first make the request for MCIDAS products. So, Don stopped the LDM and then waited to see if any MCIDAS products would come in; one did. Don then noticed that the time on your machine appears to be off by one hour. This is most likely the cause of your difficulties. What you need to do is: o logon as root o select the system administration icon from the control-panel GUI that will popup o select date and time from near the bottom of the list on the left hand side of the GUI o set the time o verify that your time is now correct Our theory is that your clock has been slowly drifting since Don help you set it up. What really needs to be done is to get the person that will be helping you with Linux (reference below) to setup NTP for you so that your clock will stay correct (at least while connected to the net). >On another issue...I have found someone to help me with our linux problems >and he and I will be working together over the next few weeks to try to >iron out some of the problems I mentioned to you last week. I'll keep you >informed and will probably have some questions along the way. OK, sounds good. Tom