19990212: McIDAS-X 7.40 - Gridplot cmd in PANels (cont.)

>From: address@hidden
>Organization: SMSU
>Keywords: 199902121845.LAA13194 McIDAS-X 7.40 GRIDPLOT PANEL

Bill,

>I'll send you X files (not the TV show, but let's list then and see
>where I end up)
>
>1) /home/mcidas/src/eta.sh
>2) /home/mcidas/src/eta_1.sh
>3) /home/mcidas/data/ETA_L.BAT
>4) /home/mcidas/data/ETA_1.BAT
>
>Yeah, that ought to get you laughing pretty good.

No.

>1. eta.sh simply initiates eta_1.sh and eta_2.sh (last one not sent)
>2. eta_1.sh does the 0-18 hr eta products...
>3. ETA_L.BAT sets up strings, then lists the grids available for
>  eta_1.sh to count and judge  whether it should make new maps.
>4. ETA_1.BAT is the actual mapping.

OK.

>eta.sh is initiated periodically by cron.

OK, I see this in the cron list:

cirrus:/home/mcidas/workdata> crontab -l
#5 19 * * * /home/mcidas/archive2.script
04 12 * * * /home/mcidas/rotate.cmd
12 * * * * cp /home/mcidas/data/mc/curwx.html /home/mcidas/.plan
30 9,15 * * * /home/mcidas/src/mcscour.sh
#01 * * * * /bin/rm /home/mcidas/workdata/ROUTEPP.LOG
# The next two entries must by synchronized...format after surf
10,20 * * * * /home/mcidas/src/surf.sh
12 * * * * /home/mcidas/data/mc/format_htmls
55 8,20 * * * /home/mcidas/src/500mb.sh
45 7,19  * * * /home/mcidas/src/lift.sh
45 7,19  * * * /home/mcidas/src/mrf.sh
50 20,21,22,9,10,11,12 * * * /home/mcidas/src/eta.sh 
>/home/mcidas/workdata/eta.sh.output  #  eta (0,1,2=0z,10,11,12=12z)


Since the failure was "flakey", I decided to take you up on your offer to
logon to your machine and see what could be amiss.  I noticed that there
were some files in ~mcidas/workdata that were remnamts of old sessions:

-rw-rwxr--   1 mcidas   unidata     4352 Feb 06 12:22 FRAMED.001*
-rw-rwxr--   1 mcidas   unidata    55488 Feb 15 17:39 FRAMENH.001*
-rw-rwxr--   1 mcidas   unidata     8192 Feb 06 12:22 FRNV.001*
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata     8004 Feb 06 12:22 FRNVDIR.001
-rw-rw-r--   1 mcidas   unidata    10240 Feb 06 12:22 FRNVEXP.001
-rw-rwxr--   1 mcidas   unidata  12000000 Feb 15 17:39 SYSIMAGE.SAV*

Files of these names are supposed to be created and destroyed on a
session-by- session basis (even mini-sessions started by cron or ROUTE
PP BATCH invocations).  Without looking too hard at the scripts you sent
me (I actually did look at them in some detail), I judged that the
flakey behavior could be caused by the above files existing in the
first directory in your MCPATH (/home/mcidas/workdata).  Since these
files should be deleted anyway, I went ahead and did so.  The next
thing for you to comment on is whether or not this solved your problem.

Tom