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Sitler Jeffrey L Civ AFIT/ENP wrote: > > Good Morning Anne, > They are doing some testing of a new firewall here... more headaches I don't > need, but I am still getting data in, but the log looks very similar to the > log before we got port 388 open. If you have the time today, could you > gander at it, and see if you see anything funky going on. > Thank you and Happy Holidays. > Jeff Hi Jeff, Except for one thing, things look fine on fujita. I don't see any problems with the logs, what were you referring to? The one problem I saw was that dcgrib was unable to write (see ldmd.log). I asked Steve Chiswell, our gempak guru, about it. He said that with the old version of gempak, the old default values will limit you on how many grids you can write. The eta grid, the one that is having trouble, now goes out to 60 hours, whereas at the time of the gempak version that you are running, it only went out to 48 hours. He confirmed that this was the problem by running gdinfo. Here's the relevant portion: Number of grids in file: 1500 Maximum number of grids in file: 1500 But, you can change the default values. So, we made a change to your pqact.conf. The entry: HRS ^[YZ].[QRUT].*/mETA PIPE /home/kramer3/users/ldm/decoders/dcgrib -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log -g /usr/local/nawips/gempak5.4/tables PACK /home/kramer3/users/ldm/data/gempak/hds/YYYYMMDDHH_eta@@@.gem became HRS ^[YZ].[QRUT].*/mETA PIPE /home/kramer3/users/ldm/decoders/dcgrib -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log -g /usr/local/nawips/gempak5.4/tables -m 5000 PACK /home/kramer3/users/ldm/data/gempak/hds/YYYYMMDDHH_eta@@@.gem The -m 5000 increases the number of grids in the file from the default value of 1500 to 5000. I would strongly encourage you to upgrade your gempak. We can help you do that if you send email to address@hidden. (It will most likely get forwarded to Steve.) In addition to providing defaults that are appropriate for today's environment, an upgrade will also allow you to get new products that weren't available before. If you see anything else that looks like a problem let us know. Also, in general please email to address@hidden rather than directly to me. That way, someone can help you if I'm not available. I'm moving into a greater development role, so LDM support is migrating over to other people. Thanks! Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************