20030808: McIDAS can't seem to access data in RTPTSRC

>From: Robert Mullenax <address@hidden>
>Organization: NMSU/NSBF
>Keywords: 200308010251.h712pjLd022634 McIDAS-XCD DMSFC

Hi Robert,

Sorry I couldn't get to this sooner.  I just got back from 6 days of
mountain biking and hiking in celebration of my 53rd birthday :-)

>Can you look at this box again, newpsn.nsbf.nasa.gov?

I tried to ssh and do a traceroute to this machine, but I didn't get
anywhere.:

% traceroute newpsn.nsbf.nasa.gov
trying to get source for newpsn.nsbf.nasa.gov
source should be 128.117.140.45
traceroute to newpsn.nsbf.nasa.gov (192.149.107.76) from 128.117.140.45 
(128.117.140.45), 30 hops max
outgoing MTU = 1500
 1  flra-n140 (128.117.140.252)  2 ms  1 ms  1 ms
 2  gin-n243-80.ucar.edu (128.117.243.81)  1 ms  1 ms  1 ms
 3  frgp-gw-1.ucar.edu (128.116.254.250)  2 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 4  192.43.217.130 (192.43.217.130)  2 ms  2 ms  10 ms
 5  snvang-dnvrng.abilene.ucaid.edu (198.32.8.1)  27 ms  27 ms  27 ms
 6  192.150.31.5 (192.150.31.5)  28 ms  28 ms  28 ms
 7  128.161.3.94 (128.161.3.94)  65 ms  68 ms  65 ms
 8  192.150.40.22 (192.150.40.22)  67 ms  66 ms  66 ms
 9  s-nsbftx.nsn.nasa.gov (128.161.149.2)  130 ms  138 ms  126 ms
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *

>Surface data is not working
>again..but WXTLIST shows data is there.

OK, sounds like the decoder for surface data.  Is there a file named
decodertypes.core in the ~mcidas/workdata directory?  I have made the
mistake of deleting *.core in ~mcidas/workdata and shot myself in the
foot as far as data decoding is concerned.

>It was working last night, but
>doesn't work tonight (sfccon, sfclist,sfcrpt).....I upgraded to v. 2003
>a couple of days ago.  There were no changes last night..it just
>dtopped working.

I will check things out as soon as I can get to the machine.  Right
now, it looks as if the box is behind a firewall that is blocking
our access.

Tom

>From address@hidden Thu Aug 14 13:49:56 2003

re: can't get to newpsn.nsbf.nasa.gov
>Looks like they shut the machine down for some reason (maybe lightning
>as it is still in a development area).  I will going to PSN Saturday in
>person.

re: was ~mcidas/workdata/decodertypes.core deleted

>I don't think that was it.  Unless something automatically deleted it.
>It was working one evening..and then overnight it stopped working.
>I wonder if there is something new coming in in NOAAPort that is
>causing problems.

re: I will check things out as soon as I can get to the machine

>I have e-mailed her to see if they can get the machine back up Friday
>(she's out today).  If not it will be Saturday when I get up there.

>Thanks,
>Robert