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>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden> >Organization: CU/CIRES >Keywords: 200101021555.f02Ftlo18427 McIDAS-X 7.7 MCCOMPRESS Hsie, >In my LDM log file, I got the folowing messages: > >Jan 02 07:49:58 cumulus pnga2area[16869]: Starting Up >Jan 02 07:49:58 cumulus pnga2area[16869]: Error: unable to find SATANNOT: No >such file or directory >Jan 02 07:49:58 cumulus pnga2area[16869]: Error: unable to find SATBAND: No su > ch >file or directory >Jan 02 07:49:58 cumulus pnga2area[16869]: unPNG:: 78624 322320 4.0995 >Jan 02 07:49:58 cumulus pnga2area[16869]: Exiting > >These two files (SATANNOT and SATBAND) are in my /home/mcidas/solaris/data >directory??? > >The decoder "pnga2area" is compiled with McIDAS 7.6 library. pnga2area will look for these files in /home/mcidas/data by default. If they exist someplace else, pnga2area has to be told where to look. You do this by using the '-a' and '-b' flags on the pnga2area invocation line in pqact.conf. As an example, if your pqact.conf entry for pnga2area was: MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....) PIPE -close pnga2area -d /var/data/mcidas -r \1,\2 it should be modified to be: MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....) PIPE -close pnga2area -a /home/mcidas/solaris/data/SATANNOT -b /home/mcidas/solaris/data/SATBAND -d /var/data/mcidas -r \1,\2 The other thing you could do is copy SATANNOT and SATBAND to ~ldm/etc and set the '-a' and '-b' flags to point at that directory. After making any changes to pqact.conf, you should: ldmadmin pqactcheck ldmadmin pqactHUP Tom