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Re: 19990210: DIFAX not processing

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  • Subject: Re: 19990210: DIFAX not processing
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:44:33 -0700 (MST)

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Unidata Support wrote:

> >To: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
> >From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden>
> >Subject: DIFAX not processing
> >Organization: .
> >Keywords: 199902052125.OAA29678
> 
> 
> I've got a problem processing our incoming DIFAX products.  I can see that
> the DIFAX products are coming in correctly using the ldmadmin watch
> command.  I recently made some changes to our pqact.conf to delete out
> many duplicate entries that we've had.  The old pqact.conf file handles 
> the incoming DIFAX correctly; the new one does not.  There are only two 
> entries that deal with DIFAX (listed below).
> 
> # DIFAX feed from Alden
> DIFAX   ^(....).*       FILE    -overwrite      -close
> /usr/local/ldm/data/apollo/rawdifax/\1.g3
> #DIFAX  ^(....).*       EXEC    /usr/local/ldm/scripts/remote.difax \1
> DIFAX   ^(....).*       EXEC    /usr/local/ldm/scripts/process.difax \1

Mark,

As use ldm, run your new script from ldm home. ie

% cd ~
% /usr/local/ldm/scripts/process.difax <difaxName>

This will probably show the problem. 

Robb...

> 
> The lines are identical between the original and my current version, tabs
> and all.  Running "ldmadmin pqactcheck" return the following:
> 
> [ldm@cirrus etc]$ ldmadmin pqactcheck
> /usr/local/ldm/etc/pqact.conf is syntactically correct
> 
> I believe that the duplicate entries may have been creating some minor
> problems so I don't want to restore the old version if at all possible.
> For reference, I've kept the last pqact.conf to work with the DIFAX as
> "pqact.conf.keep" in the same directory.  I know I'm missing something
> here but I'm at a loss at to what it might be. I couldn't find anything
> in the archives that mention a similar problem.
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Tucker
> Information Technology
> Lyndon State College
> address@hidden
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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