[ldmMcidas #VMF-784186]: ldm-mcidas decoder pnga2area

Hi Mar,

re:
pnga2area output area was the same in both log file snippits 
> agreed

re: possible output directory write permission issue
> > - /data             <- if pnga2area needs to create /data/ldm
> > - /data/ldm         <- if pnga2area needs to create /data/ldm/gempak
> > - /data/ldm/gempak  <- if pnga2area needs to create /data/ldm/gempak/images
> > - /data/ldm/gempak/images <- etc.
> 
> Yeah, I forgot to include that ldm and the pqact.gempak processors were
> able to successfully create other files in the /data/ldm/gempak/images
> directory.

OK.

> I have included a consolidated directory listing:
> [ldm@foehn ~]$ ls -l data
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 ldm met-apps 10 Jun 29 15:21 data -> /data2/ldm

So, ~ldm/data points to /data2/ldm, not /data/ldm.  This is likely the
entire problem as your pqact.gempak entries for the MCIDAS feed
have /data/ldm/... as the output directories.

> [ldm@foehn ~]$ ls -l /data2/ldm
> total 402432
> drwxr-xr-x  24 ldm met-apps      4096 Jul 15 16:05 gempak
> 
> [ldm@foehn ~]$ ls -l /data2/ldm/gempak
> total 88
> drwxr-xr-x   3 ldm met-apps 4096 Jul 15 16:05 images
> 
> [ldm@foehn ~]$ ls -l /data2/ldm/gempak/images
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x  3 ldm met-apps 4096 Jul 15 16:05 sat
> 
> [ldm@foehn ~]$ ls -l /data2/ldm/gempak/images/sat
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x  5 ldm met-apps 4096 Jul 15 16:05 NEXRCOMP

Looks good...

> At the same time that I instituted the UNIWISC feed it, which is
> resulting in these errors, it successfully created the NEXRCOMP
> directory and products.

OK.  The pqact.conf entry must have been pointing to /data2/ldm/...
or you were using the connection through the ~ldm/data <-> /data2/ldm
soft link.

> If you want in to poke around, I have temporarily changed the magic word
> to:  ...

Thanks.  I logged on and changed the specified output data directories
from/data/ldm/gempak/... to data/gempak.  Now the images are being decoded
and written as shown in this ~ldm/data/gempak/logs/ldm-mcidas.log output:


Jul 16 14:42:09 pnga2area[13551]: Starting Up
Jul 16 14:42:09 pnga2area[13551]: output file pathname: 
data/gempak/images/sat/GOES-11/4km/12.0/12.0_20060716_1430
Jul 16 14:42:09 pnga2area[13551]: unPNG::   908797   2439056  2.6838
Jul 16 14:42:09 pnga2area[13551]: Exiting
Jul 16 14:45:05 pnga2area[13906]: Starting Up
Jul 16 14:45:05 pnga2area[13906]: output file pathname: 
data/gempak/images/sat/SOUNDER/1km/CTP/CTP_20060716_1400
Jul 16 14:45:05 pnga2area[13906]: unPNG::    71830    309200  4.3046
Jul 16 14:45:05 pnga2area[13906]: Exiting

> Thank you for your help.

No worries...

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: VMF-784186
Department: Support ldm-mcidas
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed