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Wayne, You can use the notifyme command to check what products your upstream is receiving: notifyme -v -l - -o 3600 -f MCIDAS -h grayskies.atmos.washington.edu It appears that currently, that machine is not receiving any MCIDAS products. This should not have anything to do with the message below. Steve Chiswell >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200008042105.e74L56T11262 >Tom, > >Is there anyway you could check if this situation exists on >grayskies.atmos.washington.edu? We've not received an AREA file since 9:30am >and I have not been able to contact anyone responsible at that site. Harry wa > s >gone last week and I contacted his backup when we were having some other feed > >problems, but no reply today. > >Wayne Gibson >Oregon State University > >> From address@hidden Fri Aug 4 13:45 PDT 2000 >> To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >> cc: address@hidden >> Subject: 20000804: LDM modifications for Unidata-Wisconsin imagery >> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:32:35 -0600 >> From: Tom Yoksas <address@hidden> >> >> >From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >> >Organization: NIU >> >Keywords: 200008041941.e74JfkT27007 LDM ldm-mcidas ldmd.conf pqact.conf >> >> Gilbert, and those feeding from him: >> >> Just one comment for the folks feeding from one or more of Gilbert's >> machines: >> >> >Further, I commented out all my old McIDAS entries for AREA file >> >reception using the old method and am now saving just the AREA files >> >that are compressed the PNG way. We will see if the entries work as >> >expected. Those of you hooked up to my ldm should only experience a >> >temporary delay until the queue catches up, which has already happened on >> >my end. I will keep an eye on it to make sure it stays up today. >> >> If the change Gilbert made is in how he requests the imagery (i.e., a >> modification of the MCIDAS request line in his ldmd.conf files), and if >> you have not updated your ldmd.conf request line and have not installed >> the new ldm-mcidas PNG compressed image decoder, pnga2area, you could >> find yourself getting no Unidata-Wisconsin images. >> >> Details: >> >> the ldmd.conf MCIDAS request line for non-leaf node IDD (i.e., relay) >> sites should look like: >> >> request MCIDAS ".*" upstream_feed_machine_name >> >> This enables all images to be sent to the relay. >> >> The request line for IDD leaf nodes can be refined to request only >> PNG compressed imagery: >> >> request MCIDAS "^pnga2area Q[01]" upstream_feed_machine_name >> >> Leaf nodes should only change their MCIDAS request lines if they have >> installed and configured their pqact.conf files for pnga2area. >> >> Just thought I should stick my 2 cents worth in... >> >> Tom >> -- >> >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > + >> * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Progra > m >* >> * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 300 > 0 >* >> * address@hidden Boulder, CO 8030 > 7 >* >> * Unidata WWW Service >http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* >> >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > + >