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Jayne, >Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:44:17 -1000 >From: "Jayne Hirakawa" <address@hidden> >Organization: NOAA >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20051111: Need help on LDM setup The above message contained the following: > Does the mcidas areafiles on the server need to be in a specific > directory? By "server" I assume you mean the downstream LDM (i.e., the LDM that's receiving the data-products). The LDM imposes no constraints on the data directory-structure of the downstream host (the host running the downstream LDM). Such constraints are usually imposed by the data-analysis and display packages that are, subsequently, used to process the data. > If not, does a path need to specified somewhere as to where > the data directory resides? By default, the pqact(1) process on the downstream host will have the home directory of the LDM user as its current working directory. The standard structure for the LDM user has a "data" directory in the LDM user's home directory into which the pqact(1) process often files the data-products. The processing of data-products on a downstream host for subsequent use by the McIDAS package is significantly different, however, and you should read the McIDAS documentation on this issue. > Attached the ldmd.conf and pqact.conf files. [snip] LDM configuration-file on host "dude-pc": The entries ALLOW ANY ^gracie-pc.hfo.noaa.gov ACCEPT ANY ".*" ^gracie-pc.hfo.noaa.gov are better written as ALLOW ANY ^gracie-pc\.hfo\.noaa\.gov$ ACCEPT ANY ".*" ^gracie-pc\.hfo\.noaa\.gov$ because the periods are literal and need to be escaped. LDM configuration-file on host "gracie": The entry REQUEST ANY ".*" dude-pc.hfo.noaa.gov PRIMARY is better written as REQUEST ANY ".*" dude-pc.hfo.noaa.gov because the PRIMARY keyword is meaningless to LDM 6.4 and is ignored. The entry ACCEPT ANY ".*" dude-pc.hfo.noaa.gov is better written as ACCEPT ANY ".*" dude-pc\.hfo\.noaa\.gov because the periods are literal and need to be escaped. pqact(1) configuration-file on host "gracie": The entries ANY ^(IR_......_....)" FILE --overwrite data/save/IR/IRany EXP ^(IR_......_....)" FILE --overwrite data/save/IR/IRexp ANY ^IR_051111_2000 FILE --overwrite /data/save/IR/IR2000 are better written as ANY ^IR_......_.... FILE -overwrite data/save/IR/IRany EXP ^IR_......_.... FILE -overwrite data/save/IR/IRexp ANY ^IR_051111_2000 FILE -overwrite data/save/IR/IR2000 because 1. The parentheses are superfluous. 2. The product-identifier probably doesn't contain a quotation mark ("). 3. The "-overwrite" option takes a single hyphen. 4. The directory into which to write the IR_051111_2000 data-products is probably "data" rather than "/data". Note also that the various fields must be separated by tabs. Regards, Steve Emmerson