Re: 20040630: potential LDM/pqact problem on OSF/1

David,

>Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:48:59 -0700
>From: David Ovens <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Washington
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20040630: potential LDM/pqact problem on OSF/1
>Keywords: 200406241954.i5OJsCWb010248 LDM PIPE Perl

The above message contained the following:

> Steve, the part in the code where it decides to exit was this:
> 
> } else {
>     if ($fullfile =~ m#/ch2/GOES-12# || $fullfile =~ 
> m#/(NHEM-COMP|PR-|HI-|AK-|12.0|3.9|13.3|SOUND|COMP/)#) {
>     open(LOG,">>$ENV{HOME}/logs/gini2gif.skip.log");
>     print LOG "$hour:$min:$sec skipping \"$fullfile\" localfile =
>     $localfile\n";
>     close LOG;
>     exit;
> }

So that's what's occupying 300+ megabytes in the LDM logging directory!

> Do you really think I need to add in a 
>     system "cat > /dev/null";
> before the exit?

I don't know, but I would try it and see.

I would also try to make the extended regular-expression that selects
what products to process more selective, so that the perl script
would process every product it received.

> David
> -- 
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson