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Eirh-Yu Hsie wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Unidata Support wrote: > > > > Hello Hsie, > > > > This message means that for some reason some processes that are spawned > > by pqact are dying. Most likely it's a decoder or decompressor or > > something along those lines. > > > > Were any paths or permissions changed so that a decoder couldn't be > > found or a file couldn't be written properly? Are you missing any data? > > > > To identify what's failing, you could see if the PIDs being reported in > > the log match any other log entries. And/or, you can put pqact in > > verbose or debug mode by sending it a USR2 signal, i.e., do 'kill -USR2 > > <pqactPID>', then see if any more useful information appears in the > > log. Sending pqact this signal will cause it to cycle through its three > > modes: quiet, verbose, and debug. The second two may fill up your log. > > > > Please try these things and let me know what you find out. > > > > Anne > > -- > > > > Thanks! It is the perl decoder. I install the new version of the decoders > (Version 2.3.8) at the > same time. There are some hard-coded file pathes in the code. > > Hsie > > -- > ------------------------- > Eirh-Yu Hsie > Aeronomy Laboratory/NOAA > 325 Broadway, R/AL4 > Boulder, CO 80305-3328 > voice: 303-497-3275 > fax: 303-497-5373 Great! Thanks for letting me know. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************