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On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Celia Chen wrote: > Robb, > > I ran pqsurf in verbose mode again with a -Q: > > /home/ldm/bin/pqsurf -vl - -Q /home/ldm/data/pqsurf.pq -x > /home/ldm/logs/pqsurf_debug.log /home/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf > > I got the following output messages and don't understand > why /usr/local/ldm is in there. Do you have any ideas? My > LDM home directory is /home/ldm. In my ldmd.conf file, pqact > is configured as the following: > > exec "pqact -l /home/ldm/logs/pqact.log -d /home/ldm > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf" Celia, pqsurf runs it's own version of pqact taking the parameters/flags from the pqsurf invocation. So you need to add -q /home/ldm/data/ldm.pq to pqsurf line. To avoid all the flags, if you would make a link ie. % ln -s /home/ldm /usr/local/ldm Then it should get all the defaults correct. Remember the etc dir needs to have a pqsurf.conf file. Robb... > > ============================ > > ozone:/home/ldm/exe> pqsurf_verbose > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: Starting Up (27501) > Mapping 7995392 > exec'ing: "pqact -v -l - -x -d /usr/local/ldm -q > /home/ldm/data/pqsurf.pq /usr/local/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf" > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: pq_open failed: /usr/local/ldm/data/ldm.pq: No > such file or directory > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: Exiting > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: waitpid: No child processes > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: Queue usage (bytes): 4014552 > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: (nregions): 23105 > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: Number of products 0 > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: Number of observations 0 > Aug 31 17:27:47 pqsurf[27502]: Number of dups 0 > > ============================ > > > Celia > > > > > > > > Celia, > > > > I don't know what you directory configuration is but why don't you use the > > flags for the queue and directory, etc so pqsurf doesn't have to use the > > defaults. Look at the man page: > > > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pqsurf+1 > > > > > > I ran pqsurf on our system here, it's working fine. > > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Celia Chen wrote: > > > > > I ran pqsurf in verbose mode and this is all I got until I kill it: > > > > > > > > > Aug 30 22:46:06 pqsurf[17083]: Starting Up (17082) > > > Aug 30 22:46:06 pqsurf[17083]: 19990830214606.818 TS_ENDT {{IDS|DDS, > > > "^S[AIMNP]"}} > > > Aug 30 22:46:06 pqact[17084]: Starting Up > > > Aug 30 22:46:06 pqact[17084]: Successfully read pattern file > > > "/home/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf" > > > Aug 30 22:46:06 pqact[17084]: TS_ZERO TS_ENDT {{ANY, ".*"}} > > > Aug 30 22:46:06 pqact[17084]: 0 19990830224606.854 ANY 000 > > > _BEGIN_ > > > > > > > > > This is on a SUN sparc Ultra-2 running SunOS 5.7 > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Celia > > > > > > > > > > > You need to do some investigative work. What does the pqsurf log > > > > messages > > > > say? Did you put pqsurf into verbose mode? Did you remake the pqsurf > > > > queue? etc. Also, what type of platform/os, etc. > > > > > > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Please advise! > > > > > > > > > > Celia > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In particular, this distribution does not include the gdbm > > > > > > > library, > > > > > > > and so would not be backward compatiable with Peter Neilley's > > > > > > > weather. > > > > > > > If someone is building from source (or we are building binaries), > > > > > > > an > > > > > > > existing gdbm library can be used by setting the environment > > > > > > > variable > > > > > > > GDBMLIB prior to running configure. If the system already has gdbm > > > > > > > installed in a place where the linker can find it simply by > > > > > > > '-lgdbm', this > > > > > > > is detected automatically and it is not necessary to set GDBMLIB > > > > > > > manually. > > > > > > > This _is_ the case on Linux, so it builds in a Neilly compatible > > > > > > > way by > > > > > > > default on Linux. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Glenn also made the WMO header test in pqing/afos_message.c more > > > > > > > lenient > > > > > > > for AFOS feed. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This is a binary as well as a source code release, there are > > > > > > > binaries > > > > > > > available for: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > linux_2.2-i686/ > > > > > > > linux_2.2.5-i686/ > > > > > > > osf1_4.0-alpha/ > > > > > > > hpux_11.00-hp9000/ > > > > > > > sunos_5.6-i86pc/ > > > > > > > hpux_10.20-hp9000/ > > > > > > > sunos_5.7-i86pc/ > > > > > > > sunos_5.7-sparc/ > > > > > > > irix_6.5-mips/ > > > > > > > sunos_5.6-sparc/ > > > > > > > aix_4.3-rs6000/ > > > > > > > irix64_6.5-mips/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There are on-line installation instructions on the LDM home page. > > > > > > > Report any > > > > > > > problems to address@hidden . > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Robb... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > > > > > > Robb Kambic Unidata Program > > > > > > > Center > > > > > > > Software Engineer III Univ. 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