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20011212: setup of ldm-mcidas, LDM, XCD, and McIDAS at COFC (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20011212: setup of ldm-mcidas, LDM, XCD, and McIDAS at COFC (cont.)
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 16:14:43 -0700
>From: "James R. Frysinger" <address@hidden>
>Organization: College of Charleston
>Keywords: 200111061842.fA6Igt112242 LDM binary install

Jim,

>Got your afternoon/evening email but have been grading lab reports; my 
>mind is now mush.
>
>Just got this right before I logged off my home machine for the night. 
>I suppose it's the result of your work today. I can't fix it from here 
>because crontab -e calls up ed which doesn't display remotely on my 
>machine. (For some reason 'display metric.metricmethods.com:0' prior to 
>using 'crontab -e' gets blocked by my machine even though mcidas can 
>open it!)
>
>body { font-family: "times new roman" } p { font-size: 14pt } a { 
>color: #535378; text-decoration: none; }Output from "cron" command
>From: sysadmin frysingj <address@hidden> (oper)
>To: address@hidden
>
>
>Your "cron" job on weather
>bin/ldmadmin scour
>
>produced the following output:
>
>rm: ./nport is a directory
>rm: ./nport/SOUNDER/14km is a directory
>rm: ./nport/SOUNDER/20km is a directory

This not an indication of a problem, but I tried to address it anyway.
I changed the crontab entry to send all script output/error output to
/dev/null.  Nice, light touch, eh? :-)

Tom