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Adam, I logged in to cyclone, and found that the scour script had a typo where I'm assuming that Tom had re-arranged the script to be more efficient. I have fixed that and scouring now appears to work. After running "ldmadmin scour" you are now at 39% on /data. Steve Chiswell >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200310081600.h98G0IOb028011 >Um.. i have a problem. The system is not scouring at all. i have data in my >hds directory all the way back from SEPT 30. The scour.conf file is set for >only 3 days. When i run scour it just tells me that there are no recient >files in any directory. All of my directorys have older data then what is >specified in the scour.conf file. As i result, I am out of drive space. >and short of using a rm command manually, i cannot seem to get scour to get >rid of the older files. Please help. > >Adam Taylor > >Quoting Unidata Support <address@hidden>: > >> >From: address@hidden >> >Organization: ULM >> >Keywords: 200310011647.h91Gl8k1011698 McIDAS LDM GEMPAK >> >> Hi Adam, >> >> >Just seeing whats up. Haven't heard from you guys in a couple of days. >> >> I forwarded the cyclone login information to Chiz yesterday so he could >> get on and look at/tune up your GEMPAK installation. The McIDAS stuff >> is pretty much done except for making sure that data scouring is >> working correctly (it is not completely setup yet). >> >> Things have not been going as fast as I would have liked them to due to >> committee meetings two weeks in a row; preparation for the upcoming >> training workhops; writing AMS papers; and several fires that had to be >> put out. >> >> As I promised earlier, we will send you a report on what we did when >> it is all finished. >> >> Sorry for not being able to respond sooner... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tom >> **************************************************************************** > >> < >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program > >> < >> (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 > >> < >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 > >> < >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> < >> Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support > >> < >> **************************************************************************** > >> < >> > > >-- >Adam Taylor >Computing Center >University of Louisiana at Monroe > **************************************************************************** < Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program < (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 < address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 < ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support < **************************************************************************** <