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Hi Kevin, Well, what I was seeing was making no sense to me... for instance, I was seeing ~ldm/logs/ldm-mcidas.log entries that indicated that the ldm-mcidas 'pnga2area' decoder was running even though the ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf_mcidasB pattern-action file clearly indicated that the UNIWISC products should be processed (filed) by ~ldm/util/ldmfile.sh. That was getting VERY frustrating indeed, because I could simply not figure out what was going on. I finally resorted to doing a clean build of ldm-6.11.4 after making sure that the environment defined in ~ldm/etc/.cshrc was correct AND was in scope before doing the new build/re-install. After the rebuild/reinstall, I started the LDM and everything came up working as it should (meaning that XCD is running nicely, and all images are being processed through ~ldm/util/ldmfile.sh). I thought about this for a couple of minutes and then a light bulb went on: the LDM administrative script ~ldm/bin/ldmadmin has the variable 'ldmhome' that gets set when the package is built/installed. This variable obviously had been set to a value that was not correct given the regularized LDM build that I _thought_ I had done... I never rebuilt the LDM until a few minutes ago. So, the problem all along was in my not performing a clean rebuild of the LDM when I went about regularizing the LDM installation; my bad! As I end this note, I believe that everything is working as it should (but I will do a bit more snooping to make sure). Since satellite imagery is now being processed, the ADDE dataset definitions that I implemented when configuring the 'mcidas' account will now find the imagery data. You should, therefore, be able to view the imagery from derecho in your IDV as soon as you set the Server: value in the Data Choosers -> Sat & Radar -> Images GUI. I'll write more if anything comes to mind... 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: ECE-924432 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed