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>From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon) >Organization: Ohio State >Keywords: 200102121741.f1CHf4L28141 McIDAS mosaic IMGREMAP Chris, >Thanks for your successful diagnoses of the time change problem I had. No problem. >After having to reinstall my operating system after a hacker attack, I >have been working to finalize my GEWCOMP2 script to composite my images. >When I run the program today, I get several warnings that I haven't seen >before when I ran the script: > >GEWCOMP2 GOES-8 METSAT-7 MYDATA/IMAGES.1234 0 98244 Y > >..... > >IMGREMAP MYDATA/IMAGES.1234 MYDATA/IMAGES.1235 PRO=RECT RES=4 SIZE=ALL >Beginning Image Data transfer, bytes= 1449992 >IMGREMAP: transformations complete ... begin data move >IMGREMAP: Data service module problem, RC= -1 >IMGREMAP: Local interface module cannot be found >IMGREMAP: Failed to open connection to put destination image >IMGREMAP failed, RC=1 > >..... This appears as though one of the routines needed in the remap was not successfully built. I recommend CDing to the ~mcidas/bin directory and doing a long list looking for zero-length files. When you find one (or more), you will need to remake the executable and re-"install" it: cd ~mcidas/bin ls -alt | more <find the modules that are zero-length> cd ~mcidas/mcidas7.7/src rm <list of modules that were zero-length in the ~mcidas/bin directory> make <list of modules that were zero-length in the ~mcidas/bin directory> ln <list of modules that were zero-length in the ~mcidas/bin directory> ~/bin >Seems pretty serious, but the script completes in what appears to be a >normal fashion (i.e. I get the composited image I want and it looks good). Weird! >I was just curious if you knew what was giving me that warning, if I >should pay attention to it, and what steps I should take if any to resolve >it. Thanks. The message is serious, but obviously not to the successful completion of your task. If I was you, I would still find the missing/zero-length module(s) and rebuild them. Tom