20000301: pqact question

Alan,

I see you sent the message to Robb, so I'll let him answer 
more competely, but here is a quick impression:

The easiest thing to do is probably let the 15 minute precip mode file
just overwrite the 10 minute file.  In other words, you are matching 
both 10 and 15 with the (1[0-9]) pattern at the end, but you can
write them to the same file name instead of using the \6 pattern.
This would be OK, unless you absolutely want the filename to be the
exact time of the data.

For example:
WSI     
^NEX/(...)/BREF1/..([0-9][0-9])([0-1][0-9])([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])(1[0-9])
        FILE    -overwrite      data/nexrad/\2/\1r0/\3\4\510.nid


This way, any image from 10-19 minutes would be written to a file name
using 10 as the minutes. A subsequent image would overwrite the previous
using the -overwrite tage to FILE. Without -overwrite, the data
would be appended.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Alan F Cunningham <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200003012049.NAA28905

>I have a problem which I might be able to fix with the pqact.conf,
>I'm trying to get NIDS files once an hour with a line like this..
>
>WSI
>^NEX/(...)/BREF1/..([0-9][0-9])([0-1][0-9])([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])(1[0-9])
>       FILE    /usr/local/ldm/data/nexrad/\2/\1r0/\3\4\5\6.nid
>
>This works fine for stations in clear air mode, where I would get one file
>per hour (ending either in ......10.nid or ......15.nid) because the
>update rate is 10-11 minutes for the mode.  However,
>in precip mode (updates 5-6 minutes), I get two files every hour, ending
>in ......10.nid and ......15.nid.  This is a problem of storage and
>scheduling.
>
>Would _ELSE_ be able to help me with a line like this appended to the one
>above?
>
>WSI    ^_ELSE_$ NOOP
>
>I feel like I would need the abilty to define a regular pattern for
>_ELSE_ to
>really do the job.
>
>Alan Cunningham
>Clemson University Radar Ornithology Lab
>310 Jordan Hall
>864-656-3584
>hubcap.clemson.edu/~acunnin
>