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>From: "Alliss, Randall J." <address@hidden> >Organization: TASC >Keywords: 200310161236.h9GCa8Ob005082 McIDAS script mcbatch.sh Randy, >ok... >my first attempt failed. >I changed /home/mcidas to /usr/users/mcidas (since i am running on the >alpha) >there was nothing else obvious that needed to be changed in there. Are you sure the various settings are correct? What I have in mind is the setting for MCDATA, MCTABLE_READ and MCTABLE_WRITE. >i then executed the script mcbatch.sh SITES.BAT >it produced a mcbatch.log file which had errors in it regarding some of the >mcidas commands in the SITES.BAT file...this is odd because when i execute >SITES.BAT on teh mcidas command line it works fine. Without seeing the error messages, I won't be able to help you get this running. I know this stuff works, because I just helped another site use it, and the feed back was "works great". Tom