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>From: William C Klein <address@hidden> >Organization: Valparaiso >Keywords: 200202061926.g16JQSx10267 McIDAS-XCD Bill, >Here are the current cron jobs on the aeolus box. Anne set them up. I'm >not sure where your ldmfail fits in to play with this. Since your listing does not include any invocations of ldmfail, the problem must be somewhere else. >Any chance that Anne can comment? It looks like these are crontab entries that I would have setup. Any chance I can get the logon to aeolus as the users 'ldm' and 'mcidas'. This way I could quickly determine what is amiss. If the answer is yes, please send the passwords to address@hidden and don't match the passwords to the user accounts. >Thanks, >Bill > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > >[ aeolus : root : /var/spool/cron/crontabs ] >[ 8 ] > cat mcidas ># ># Scour McIDAS data files >00 21 * * * /home/mcidas/bin/mcscour.sh ># ># Create the NGM-UW and MRF-UW GRID files from XCD decoded grids >30 11,00 * * * /home/mcidas/workdata/uwgrid.sh NF 1>/dev/null 2>&1 >00 11,23 * * * /home/mcidas/workdata/uwgrid.sh NG 1>/dev/null 2>&1 > >[ aeolus : root : /var/spool/cron/crontabs ] >[ 9 ] > cat ldm ># ># prune nexrad tree ># >15 * * * * /home/ldm/decoders/prune_nexrad.csh >/dev/null 2>&1 Tom