[IDD #ELT-525755]: pqact issues.

Mark,

> I'm having a somewhat bizarre issue related to pqact and need some help
> debugging it.  We use an EXEC statement in pqact.conf to dump certain
> bits of data (in this case the product creation time and the radar site
> name) into a text file for use by our radar status page.
> 
> The relevant line in pqact.conf is this:
> 
> > NEXRAD2 
> > ^L2-([^/]*)/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9][0-9][0-9])/([0-9][0-9][0-9])/([0-9]+)/([A-Z])
> >   EXEC  ldmlats \2 \3 \6
> 
> The script 'ldmlats' is a tiny shell script: (in entirety)
> > ldm@chestnut:~$ cat bin/ldmlats
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > echo $2 > $HOME/latencies/$1
> > echo $2 > $HOME/n-latencies/$1.$3
> 
> The variables are, $2 is the product creation time, $1 is the site name,
> and $3 is the product creation time of the first file in the volume scan.
> 
> The problem we are seeing is this.  We have certain radar sites that,
> though we are seeing the data coming in via 'ldmadmin watch', the script
> 'ldmlats' is not generating any output for those sites.  For example:
> 
> Here is a recent ldmadmin watch keying on the radar site KMQT:
> 
> > ldm@chestnut:~$ bin/ldmadmin watch 2>&1 | grep KMQT
> > Aug 06 20:02:01 pqutil INFO:    15070 20090806200133.372 NEXRAD2 50034  
> > L2-BZIP2/KMQT/20090806195147/50/34/E/V03/0
> > Aug 06 20:02:01 pqutil INFO:     8527 20090806200133.434 NEXRAD2 51001  
> > L2-BZIP2/KMQT/20090806200133/51/1/S/V03/0
> > Aug 06 20:02:01 pqutil INFO:    11483 20090806200144.522 NEXRAD2 51002  
> > L2-BZIP2/KMQT/20090806200133/51/2/I/V03/0
> > Aug 06 20:02:01 pqutil INFO:    17978 20090806200157.625 NEXRAD2 51003  
> > L2-BZIP2/KMQT/20090806200133/51/3/I/V03/0
> 
> 
> With this data, pqact /should/ call 'ldmlats' to insert data
> (20090806200157) in $LDMHOME/latencies/KMQT.  (with the first line of
> ldmlats only in the example).
> 
> However, this is what is in $LDMHOME/latencies/KMQT:
> 
> 
> > ldm@chestnut:~$ cat latencies/KMQT
> > 20090806093930
> 
> 
> In other words, that file hasn't been updated in ~11 hours.
> 
> The problem is, this problem isn't only present for specific sites.  The
> problem appears and disappears apparently at random.  KAMA and KAMX were
> not updating yesterday, but today they are.
> 
> I'm at a dead end here, based on what (little) I know of LDM, so what
> other things can I do to generate more output data to determine
> where/why pqact isn't behaving?
> 
> The system resources are good, it's not swapping, more is the CPU taxed,
> load average is minimal (0.3 to 0.44) and disk space is plentiful
> (~152GB free).
> 
> Any ideas?

The extended regular expression (ERE) doesn't match the strings.  You can see 
this with the regex(1) utility:

$ regex -s 'L2-BZIP2/KMQT/20090806195147/50/34/E/V03/0' 
'^L2-([^/]*)/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9][0-9][0-9])/([0-9][0-9][0-9])/([0-9]+)/([A-Z])'
no match

The problem is that the ERE substring "/([0-9][0-9][0-9])/" tries to match 3 
digits but the string only has 2, "/50/".

> --
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> 
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415


Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ELT-525755
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed