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On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 address@hidden wrote: > > > I did as you outlined below, but I don't have a pqsurf.pid file and it Alan, By pqsurf.pid, I mean the process ID of pqsurf, you can get it by: % ps -eaf | grep pqsurf If it's running. > doesn't look like pqsurf started. Try starting pqsurf from LDMHOME on the command line, you might want to use the flag -vl - -q <location of queue> .... I have a created a pqsurf.conf file in > ./etc with no patterns in it until I can figure out what the patterns are. > Is that stopping pqsurf from starting? > That should be ok Robb... > Also, how do entries get inserted into the pqsurf.pq? Is there an entry I > have to use in pqact.conf? > > Alan. > > > > > > Robb Kambic <address@hidden> on 11/05/99 10:47:12 AM > > > > To: Alan Hall/NCDC > > cc: support-ldm <address@hidden>, Anne > Wilson <address@hidden> > > > > Subject: Re: 19991101: New LDM Installation > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can you point me to some pqsurf documentation? I'm trying to get it set > > up, but I'm not finding much on how to. > > > > Alan. > > > Alan, > > Here's a man page, it works similar to pqact except the conf file is > called etc/pqsurf.conf > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?pqsurf+1 > > A couple of things, uncomment the line $surfsize in bin/ldmadmin and > do: > > % ldmadmin mksurfqueue > > Also uncomment the line in etc/ldmd.conf > > #exec pqsurf > > > Also, if you do a : > > % kill -USR2 <pqsurf.pid> > > Then it puts pqsurf into verbose mode so you can see what the products > ID's looks like. This helps in creating pqsurf.conf entries. > > > Robb... > > > > =========================================================================== > ==== > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > =========================================================================== > ==== > > > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================