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On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Christian Page wrote: > > Hi, > > When my ldmd starts up, it complains that pqsurf.conf cannot be found. I > checked the man page for pqsurf, but it is not clear for me how to configure > pqact.conf and pqsurf.conf accordingly to use pqsurf. I am not sure neither > if I > need to run pqsurf. Christian, The pqsurf.conf file is located in the etc/ directory along with the pqact.conf file. It uses the same type of actions as pqact but the file names are usually lower case. ie, WMO ^sao .. (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) DBFILE /weather/ddp/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.sa_gdb \1 WMO ^sao ... (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) DBFILE /weather/ddp/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.sa_gdb \1 DDPLUS ^sao USP (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) FILE data/weather/sao/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.URGENT One can run pqsurf from the command line to see what the products look like if it's a standard LDM configuration, otherwise one needs to use all the flags: % pqsurf -vl - It seems that it would eliminate duplicate entries for WMO > sfc obs. Anyone has an example of pqact.conf when using pqsurf, and an example > of pqsurf.conf? > It will eliminate duplicate reports if the reports are exactly the same. I don't know if the bulletin times will cause the reports to look differently. Don't forget to make the surfqueue. % ldmadmin mksurfqueue Give it a try and let me know how it works out. Robb... > Thanks, > > Christian Page finger address@hidden => tel. + adresse > address@hidden http://www.sca.uqam.ca/ > > Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant > Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Universite McGill / McGill Radar > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================