lightening data

Hi Jeff,

Regarding the lightening data, you are indeed getting the data.  I
confirmed this by doing the following:

fujita{ldm}59: pqcat -vl - -f NLDN > /dev/null
Oct 22 21:30:58 pqcat: Starting Up (9571)
Oct 22 21:30:59 pqcat:     4760 20011022174838.040    NLDN 000 
2001295174247
Oct 22 21:30:59 pqcat:     5880 20011022175440.514    NLDN 000 
2001295174853
Oct 22 21:31:00 pqcat:     5404 20011022180037.488    NLDN 000 
2001295175459
Oct 22 21:31:00 pqcat:     5936 20011022180637.207    NLDN 000 
2001295180005
Oct 22 21:31:01 pqcat:     5600 20011022181238.753    NLDN 000 
2001295180611
Oct 22 21:31:01 pqcat:     6804 20011022181837.538    NLDN 000 
2001295181217
Oct 22 21:31:01 pqcat:     6888 20011022182438.162    NLDN 000 
2001295181823
Oct 22 21:31:01 pqcat:     6664 20011022183035.106    NLDN 000 
2001295182429
Oct 22 21:31:02 pqcat:     8344 20011022183640.281    NLDN 000 
2001295183035
Oct 22 21:31:02 pqcat:     8652 20011022184237.236    NLDN 000 
2001295183641
^COct 22 21:31:03 pqcat: Interrupt
Oct 22 21:31:03 pqcat: Exiting

FYI, pqcat 'cats' a product out of the queue.  (pqcat is modeled after
the 'cat' unix command.  Do 'man cat' for more info.)  Here I told pqcat
to tell me, using the -v for verbose option, about every product in the
queue from the NLDN feed, and to log that info to the screen.  I also
told it to dump the actual product to /dev/null, that is, toss it.  I
wanted information about the product, not the product itself.  You have
many more than these products in your queue - I killed the command after
it displayed only a few products. 

The problem is that ~ldm/data/gempak/nldn directory is owned by root. 
This will prohibit the ldm from writing to that directory.  You need to
change the ownership to ldm.  That is, as root, do

        chown ldm:staff /home/kramer3/users/ldm/data/gempak/nldn

Tomorrow I will take a look at your pqact.conf and try to figure what is
causing the errors that are filling up your log.  If it's ok with you, I
may set yours to the side and start a new one that only handles
lightening, radar, and the UNIDATA feed.  Would that be ok?

Anne
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