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[McIDAS #IFI-844551]: Using McIDAS scripts on the crontab

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #IFI-844551]: Using McIDAS scripts on the crontab
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:29:51 -0600
Hi João,

re: running McIDAS commands from a script

> Things appear to be working well (by the way, I later noticed that mcbatch
> and mcrun were in my MCDATA folder).

Very good.

re:
> One problem that does exist is that logging has been compromised.
> Mcbatch.sh simply does not echo any output!

Question:

- the copy of mcbatch.sh that I include with Unidata McIDAS redirects
  all textual output (i.e., log messages) to the file specified
  in the MCLOG environment variable that is set in the script:

#
# Define MCLOG to be $MCDATA/mcbatch.log
#

MCLOG=$MCDATA/mcbatch.log

...

#
# Send all textual output to the log file
#

exec 2>$MCLOG 1>&2

Question:

- are you saying that the file $MCDATA/mcbatch.log does not
  exist?

- or are you saying that the file $MCDATA/mcbatch.log exists
  but does not have nay content?

re:
> Thanks anyways,

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: IFI-844551
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed