Re: pqsurf and pqsurf.conf

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Christian Page wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   When my ldmd starts up, it complains that pqsurf.conf cannot be found. I
> checked the man page for pqsurf, but it is not clear for me how to configure
> pqact.conf and pqsurf.conf accordingly to use pqsurf. I am not sure neither 
> if I
> need to run pqsurf. 


Christian,

The pqsurf.conf file is located in the etc/  directory along with the
pqact.conf file.  It uses the same type of actions as pqact but the file
names are usually lower case.  ie,

WMO    ^sao .. (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])  
       DBFILE  /weather/ddp/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.sa_gdb \1
WMO    ^sao ... (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) 
       DBFILE  /weather/ddp/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.sa_gdb \1
DDPLUS    ^sao USP (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) 
       FILE    data/weather/sao/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.URGENT

One can run pqsurf from the command line to see what the products look
like if it's a standard LDM configuration, otherwise one needs to use all 
the flags:

% pqsurf -vl - 



It seems that it would eliminate duplicate entries for WMO
> sfc obs. Anyone has an example of pqact.conf when using pqsurf, and an example
> of pqsurf.conf?
> 

It will eliminate duplicate reports if the reports are exactly the same. I
don't know if the bulletin times will cause the reports to look
differently.

Don't forget to make the surfqueue.

% ldmadmin mksurfqueue


Give it a try and let me know how it works out.

Robb...



> Thanks,
> 
> Christian Page      finger address@hidden => tel. + adresse
> address@hidden    http://www.sca.uqam.ca/
> 
> Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant
> Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Universite McGill / McGill Radar
> 

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