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20000427: ldm/mcidas at WMU (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20000427: ldm/mcidas at WMU (cont.)
  • Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:33:46 -0600
>From: address@hidden
>Organization: Western Michigan
>Keywords: 200003251752.KAA09200 McIDAS-X installation

Elen,

>Sorry I did not send the whole name of the workstation.  Here it goes:
>
>s418.lab2.cc.wmich.edu
>
>I forgot how to get the IP address.  Can you tell me how?

Now that I have access to the machine, I can get the IP address.  This
is done using the program nslookup:

nslookup s418.lab2.cc.wmich.edu
Server:  medusa.lab2.cc.wmich.edu
Address:  141.218.20.90

Name:    s418.lab2.cc.wmich.edu
Address:  141.218.93.42

The reverse lookup is done by using the IP address and seeing if the
same name comes up:

nslookup 141.218.93.42
Server:  medusa.lab2.cc.wmich.edu
Address:  141.218.20.90

Name:    s418.lab2.cc.wmich.edu
Address:  141.218.93.42

Looks good.  The reason for doing this is related to LDM security.

>Otherwise I
>have to wait for John Tucker to come back to work tomorrow.  It is past
>five over here.  But I will work late tonight.

No problem with the name/IP address.  I did, however, run into another problem.
I started the McIDAS-X build:

<login as the user 'mcidas'>
<FTP the distribution to ~mcidas>
<FTP mcinstall>
<edit .cshrc and setup McIDAS environemnt variables>

source .cshrc
cd mcidas7.6/src
make all

Everything went smoothly until I got:

compile mapsav.for:             done
compile mapurx.for:             FAILED (See 
'/home7/ldm/mcidas/mcidas7.6/src/makelog' for details.)

A tail on makelog shows:

./mccomp -O -vendor -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -c mapurx.for
cd /tmp/Mu19263
ln -s /home7/ldm/mcidas/mcidas7.6/src/mapurx.f .
ln -s /home7/ldm/mcidas/mcidas7.6/src/fileparm.inc .
f77 -c -O mapurx.f
mapurx.f:
        mapurx:
mv mapurx.o /home7/ldm/mcidas/mcidas7.6/src
mv: /home7/ldm/mcidas/mcidas7.6/src/mapurx.o: write: Disc quota exceeded
compile mapurx.for:             FAILED

Disc quota exceeded!  McIDAS-X requires at least 250 MB of disk to be
built, so I need the disk quota changed in order to continue on s418.

The next thing is where do you want data ingested by the LDM and decoded
by McIDAS-XCD and ldm-mcidas to be put?  A quick look at the file
systems on s418 shows that there are three file systems that could
be used, /ilya1, /ilya2, or /ilya3:

~>df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0      96031   18339   68089    22%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6     603599  356360  186880    66%    /usr
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3     288855  190770   69200    74%    /var
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     480919      21  432807     1%    /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0    3939604   31310 3514334     1%    /ilya1
/dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0    3939604   20829 3524815     1%    /ilya2
/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0    3939604 1366944 2178700    39%    /ilya3
/var/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/medusa:_usr_local
                     3715752 2162664 1515928    59%    /usr/local
medusa:/acct         2053576 1359240  632736    69%    /acct
medusa:/home7        15506280 14858096  493128    97%    /home7
/var/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/medusa:_opt
                     4129128  745104 3342736    19%    /opt
/var/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/medusa:_home3
                     10326520 6631384 3591872    65%    /home3
medusa:/var/mail     1523912  877208  585752    60%    /var/mail
/var/cache/.cfs_mnt_points/medusa:_home2
                     7740648 5646696 2016544    74%    /home2

After doing this list, I noticed that the home directory for the user
'mcidas' is not on a file system local to s418:

pwd
/home7/ldm/mcidas

and:

medusa:/home7        15506280 14858096  493128    97%    /home7

Am I on the correct machine?

>You are right.  I can do the surface maps, meteograms and the upper air
>staff using McIDAS.

Right.  So, you do want me to install and configure McIDAS-XCD?

>Elen

Tom
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