[LDM #RQD-888533]: pqact errors after upgrade to 6.13.0

Dave,

> Steve,
> 
> I don't think the errors have always been there.  The script that uses the 
> PIPEd metar data rewrites it into a NetCDF file.  This has always worked.  
> When I try running the new LDM, nothing is written to the file - go back to 
> the old version and data is again successfully written.  That script was 
> written by Jim Cowie - maybe you know him?  The pqact entries were also setup 
> be him.
> 
> The metar2nc script exists in /home/ldm/util.
> 
> Here's the METAR entry from pqact.conf:
> # METAR's
> WMO     ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9])        PIPE    
> metar2nc -t 30 -l logs -d data/dec_data/obs/metar etc/metar.cdl
> 
> There are no isolated minus signs.  The '-d' does not have a space.  there 
> isn't a space in the log entry either.  It must have gotten garbled when I 
> cut and pasted the entry.
> 
> Yes, the 'logs' dir exists.  It is actually a link to var/logs and the same 
> directory the LDM log is written to.
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm ldm   12 Apr 29 18:34 data -> /d1/ldm/data/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 ldm ldm    8 Apr 29 15:24 logs -> var/logs/
> 
> <pqact>
> <config-path>/home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf</config-path>
> <datadir-path>/home/ldm</datadir-path>
> </pqact>

OK. That all looks good.

> Not knowing what to try, I changed the pqact entry to see if it made a 
> difference:
> WMO     ^S[AP].* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9])        PIPE    
> ~ldm/util/metar2nc -t 30 -l logs -d data/dec_data/obs/metar etc/metar.cdl

That doesn't look like you changed "~ldm" to "/home/ldm". Did you? Did it work? 
If not, what was the error message?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RQD-888533
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed