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Gilbert, As a workaround, see if you can get GEMPAK decoder dcmetr(1) to work. Apparently, the pqact(1) process couldn't find it. > Twice in one day...but only to weather3! > > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 pqact[3946] ERROR: Deleting failed PIPE entry: > pid=32442, cmd="dcmetr -v 2 -a 500 -m 72 -s sfmetar_sa.tbl -d > data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.log -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK7/gempak/tables > data/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_sao.gem" > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 pqact[32443] ERROR: No such file or directory > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 pqact[32443] ERROR: [filel.c:1552] Couldn't > execute decoder "dcmetr" > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 pqact[32443] NOTE: Exiting > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 pqact[3946] ERROR: child 32443 exited with status > 1 (PIPE dcmetr -v 2 -a 500 -m 72 -s sfmetar_sa.tbl -d > data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.log -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK7/gempak/tables > data/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_sao.gem) > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 pqact[3946] ERROR: Deleting failed PIPE entry: > pid=32443, cmd="dcmetr -v 2 -a 500 -m 72 -s sfmetar_sa.tbl -d > data/gempak/logs/dcmetr.log -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK7/gempak/tables > data/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_sao.gem" > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 ldmd[3939] NOTE: child 3943 terminated by signal > 11: /home/ldm/bin/pqact -f FNEXRAD|GPSSRC|NLDN|NEXRAD3|WMO|WSI > /home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 ldmd[3939] NOTE: Killing (SIGTERM) process group > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 sasquatch.tamu.edu(feed)[31466] NOTE: Exiting > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 ldm-relay0.tamu.edu(feed)[31146] NOTE: Exiting > Nov 12 04:17:10 weather3 ldmd[3939] NOTE: Exiting > > Gilbert > > ******************************************************************************* > Gilbert Sebenste ******** > (My opinions only!) ****** > Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** > E-mail: address@hidden *** > web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niu.weather * > ******************************************************************************* Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: KXP-405917 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed