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>From: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Jimmy_Mejia_Fern=E1ndez?= <address@hidden> >Organization: UCR >Keywords: 200104170329.f3H3T4L28470 IDD MCIDAS Jimmy, > Thank You very much for your help, I apreciate it very much. You are welcome. re: proper way to run notifyme >The output of the above command was: > >[ldm@inti ldm]$ notifyme -vxl- -f MCIDAS -o 3600 >Apr 25 01:53:15 notifyme[9938]: Starting Up: localhost: 20010425005315.180 >TS_ENDT {{MCIDAS, ".*"}} > NOTIFYME(localhost) returns OK >Apr 25 01:53:15 notifyme[9938]: NOTIFYME(localhost): OK OK. The lack of ouput for MCIDAS products shows that they are not being received. >I also did some changes to the pqact.conf file and here are the >relevant lines of the new file: >I just want Mcidas Area Files and AVN (GRIB files for the Gempak) > > >WMO >^([^H][A-Z])([A-Z][A-Z])([0-9][0-9]) (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > FILE data/\2/\4/\6/\1\3.wmo >## >HRS ^[YZ]..... KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN) > FILE data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\2:mm)\1\2.avn > >MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....) > PIPE -close > pnga2area -d /home/ldm/data/mcidas/area -r \1,\2 > >MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q. CA .... (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....) > PIPE -close > pnga2area /home/ldm/data/gempak/nport/SOUNDER/\3/CTP/CTP_\4_\5 >MCIDAS ^pnga2area Q. CB .... (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....) > PIPE -close > pnga2area /home/ldm/data/gempak/nport/SOUNDER/\3/PW/PW_\4_\5 > >MCIDAS ^(LWTOA3 .*) > PIPE -close > lwtoa3 -d /home/ldm/data/mcidas/area -v The last part of this (the action for lwtoa3 decoding) can be commented out or removed. The images in the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream (LDM feed type MCIDAS) are all PNG compressed. >In the ldmd.conf file: > >These are the lines for to request files from Unidata: > >request HDS|MCIDAS ".*" thelma.ucar.edu >request MCIDAS "^pnga2area Q[01]" 192.52.106.21 This is incorrect. You should change this to: request HDS|DDPLUS ".*" thelma.ucar.edu request MCIDAS "^pnga2area Q[01]" 192.52.106.21 In your example, you are requesting MCIDAS in both 'request' lines. The idea is to split off the request for MCIDAS into its own line. Also, the listing we got looks as though there is a tab character between 'pnga2area' and 'Q[01]'. There should be a single space character between these, not a tab. >and for the local machines as well as Unidata: > >allow ANY > >^((localhost|loopback)|(127\.0\.0\.1\.?$)|([a-z].*\.unidata\.ucar\.edu\.?$|( >[a-z].*\.efis\.ucr\.ac\.cr\.?$))) > >allow ANY thelma.ucar.edu The best way to test the allow for UCR machines is to run notifyme from a variety of machines in your shop in the way I first mentioned: notifyme -vxl- -f MCIDAS -o 3600 -h inti.efis.ucr.ac.cr If this doesn't work, then your allow line is incorrect and needs to be fixed. >Thank You again, Tom