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Hi Paul, re: > How are you? Wild weather out there lately huh? I hope you are not still > snowed in! Sorry for the slow reply... several of us are involved in AWIPS-II System Administrator training this week, and our days are quite (understatement) full. re: > I hope you are able to help Dave set up the decoders (and mcidas) > on our new server. Yes, I will login to the new server and check things out when I get some time. re: > Until the we are still having problems with mcidas > surface data. No MDXX0010 file exists. we had the MDXX0009 file but > we not getting data correctly. I have no idea what happens. Perhaps the > decoders are not working? This has been happening a lot lately and I do > not know where the problem is. Is there are way to restart the decoders? I > have tried restarting ldm and that doesnt seem to work. I just logged into climate as 'mcidas', and see that MDXX0010 exists and seems to have good data: <as 'mcidas'> mcidas@climate:~$ cd $MCDATA mcidas@climate:~/workdata$ dmap.k MDXX PERM SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME DIRECTORY ---- --------- ------------ -------- --------- -r-- 37705536 Apr 11 17:00 MDXX0001 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 15489236 Apr 10 21:00 MDXX0009 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 49814836 Apr 11 12:12 MDXX0010 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 4616928 Apr 11 16:50 MDXX0011 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 3614976 Apr 11 13:02 MDXX0012 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 6671952 Apr 11 01:20 MDXX0020 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 1073232 Apr 11 16:50 MDXX0021 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 785120 Apr 11 13:02 MDXX0022 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 1457744 Apr 11 10:48 MDXX0030 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 4986400 Apr 11 16:59 MDXX0031 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 4985536 Apr 11 00:00 MDXX0039 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 5200672 Apr 11 16:26 MDXX0040 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 6676224 Apr 11 16:59 MDXX0051 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 648048 Apr 11 00:02 MDXX0059 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 8860224 Apr 11 16:10 MDXX0060 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 4422108 Apr 11 17:00 MDXX0061 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 6015860 Apr 11 01:45 MDXX0070 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 1530224 Apr 11 16:59 MDXX0071 /home/data/mcidas -rw- 3374944 Apr 11 00:01 MDXX0080 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 1552384 Apr 11 16:36 MDXX0081 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 1552384 Apr 10 23:36 MDXX0090 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 15298560 Apr 11 16:54 MDXX0091 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 15298560 Apr 11 00:06 MDXX0100 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 7070468 Apr 11 14:57 MDXX0101 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 7070468 Apr 10 14:58 MDXX0110 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 10606616 Apr 11 16:04 MDXX0111 /home/data/mcidas -r-- 14134616 Apr 10 22:05 MDXX0120 /home/data/mcidas 240513856 bytes in 27 files mcidas@climate:~/workdata$ sfclist.k KDEN 24 Day Time StCo Stn T Td Dir Spd Gus AltSet Vis Weather Ceil hhmm id [F] [F] [ kts ] [mb] [mi] ---- ---- ---- ----- --- --- --- --- --- ------ ----- -------- ----- 10 2353 COUS KDEN 21 12 040 5 1014.2 6.00 H 5/035 S 11 0010 COUS KDEN 21 12 090 6 1014.2 2.50 S- 5/032 S 11 0037 COUS KDEN 21 12 100 5 1013.9 6.00 H 5/032 11 0053 COUS KDEN 21 13 110 4 1013.9 10.00 5/032 11 0153 COUS KDEN 20 12 110 3 1013.5 10.00 5/200 11 0253 COUS KDEN 18 12 150 6 1013.2 10.00 5/200 11 0353 COUS KDEN 18 12 150 6 1012.5 10.00 11 0453 COUS KDEN 17 11 140 5 1012.2 10.00 11 0553 COUS KDEN 20 12 180 5 1010.5 9.00 11 0653 COUS KDEN 16 10 080 6 1009.8 8.00 11 0753 COUS KDEN 15 10 050 6 1008.5 8.00 11 0853 COUS KDEN 18 10 000 0 1007.1 9.00 5/065 11 0953 COUS KDEN 21 14 000 0 1006.8 9.00 8/070 11 1053 COUS KDEN 21 15 240 4 1006.1 7.00 8/085 11 1153 COUS KDEN 22 16 270 4 1006.1 6.00 H 8/095 11 1253 COUS KDEN 22 16 270 6 1006.1 4.00 F 5/075 11 1353 COUS KDEN 25 17 230 11 1006.1 4.00 F 5/080 11 1453 COUS KDEN 35 21 260 6 1006.4 6.00 H 5/075 11 1553 COUS KDEN 42 23 260 5 1006.8 8.00 5/070 11 1653 COUS KDEN 47 24 030 8 1007.8 10.00 5/080 Number of reports = 20 sfclist.k: done re: > Help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if the problem you referred to above continues. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: UGY-921131 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Open