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Re: 20050724: Questions about LDM 6.4

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  • Subject: Re: 20050724: Questions about LDM 6.4
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:05:34 -0600
Gilbert,

>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:48:39 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: Northern Illinois University
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20050724: Questions about LDM 6.4 

The above message contained the following:

> Even more interesting...
> 
> When I hard specify a directory in my pqact.conf, it ignores it and
> saves the file in /home/ldm/ldm-6.4.0/(whatever the subdirectory I 
> originally wanted), instead of /home/data, where I want it to go.

It could be that the pqact(1) process in question has been told to use a
configuration-file that isn't the one you modified.  This could be done,
for example, by specifying an argument to the pqact(1) EXEC entry in the
LDM configuration-file.

> Straight out of the box compile, it works on 6.30. Not so on 6.40.
> 
> In other words, on 6.30:
> 
> NEXRAD  ^SDUS5. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9]).*/p(N0R)(...)
>          FILE    /home/data/wsr88d/\5/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2\3.bref1
> 
> On 6.40, it saves it in /home/ldm/ldm-6.4.0/wsr88d. Weird enough?

May I log onto the system in question as the LDM user?  If so, you can
call me at 303-497-8648 to tell me the password.

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Regards,
Steve Emmerson