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Hi Paul, Thanks for the login credentials. I successfully SSHed to climate.cod.edu as 'mcidas', so I know the procedure works. Question: - in what account and on what machine are the scripts that are having difficulties running? If all of the McIDAS scripts are running on climate.cod.edu and all are running from the 'mcidas' account, then I can start poking around in earnest. The first thing that I noticed is the existence of at least a couple of files that should be created/used on a per-session basis in the $MCDATA directory of 'mcidas': <as 'mcidas' on climate> cd $MCDATA ls AFOS.BAT GRID0021 NEWBREF.ET PRINT.GRX TESTVIS2.ET AFOS.CFG GRID0022 NEWISFC.IDM PUBLIC.SRV TESTVIS.ET ALLOC.WWW GRID0023 NEWTERM.IDM RADAR.GRX TESTVIS.ST AREA4467 GRID0024 NEWVEL.ET RAOBCON.SITE TIRDEC.CFG AREA4467.bak GROUPS.DAT NEWVEL.ET.OLD RAOB.RAP uwgrid.sh AREA4468 H2O2.ET NEXCOMP.ET RESOLV.SRV VAPOR2.ET AREA4469 HH.ST NEXRADDE.BAT ROUTE.SYS VAPOR3.ET BANANA.ST HODO.GRX NEXRAD.GRX RTGRIDS.TXT VAPOR.ET BASICVV1 HRS.CFG NEXRCOMP.CFG RTMODELS.CFG VAPOR.GRX BREFTEST.ST IDS.CFG NEXRFILE.CFG RTMODELS.CFG.2006 VAPOR.ST CIRCUIT.DAT IMAGE2.ET NEXRID.CFG RTMODELS.CFG.2008 VIRT7001 CLEAR.ST INFRARED.ET NGMMOS.CFG S99xcd VIRT7002 COUNTRY.DAT IRABDEC.CFG NNEXRAD.CFG SAOMETAR.RAP VIRT7003 DCLSTIDX.PTR IRTEMP2.ST NOAAPORT.BAT SAT.GRX VIRT7777 DDS.CFG ISFCDEC.CFG NOGRIB2.CFG SERVER.LOG VIRT7778 DECINFO.DAT ISHPDEC.CFG NOGRIB.CFG SFCCON.SITE VIRT8888 decodertypes.core LWPATH.NAM NOGRIB.CFG.2006 SIGCO.DAT VIRT8889 DECOSTAT.DAT MBCOLOR.ET NOGRIB.CFG.2008 SKEDFILE VIRT9000 DMMISC.ERR MB.ET NOWRAD.CFG STRTABLE VIRT9004 DMRAOB.ERR MB.GRX NTXT.CFG SURFACE.GRX VIRT9005 DMSFC.ERR MB.ST OLDISFC.IDM SYNDEC.CFG VIRT9007 DMSYN.ERR MCCMDHIST.TXT OLDTERM.IDM SYNOPTIC.RAP VIRT9300 DREF.ET MCGUISTART.BAT PAULBREF.ET TERMCHAR.001 VIS.ET fort.18 MDRDEC.CFG PAULBREF.ST TERMDEC.CFG VIS.ST fort.19 MESO.GRX PAULBREF.ST.OLD TERMFCST.RAP WBOXDEC.CFG fosrelay.cfg MYBREF.ET PAULDREF.ET TESBREF.ET WNEXRAD.CFG FRAMENH.001 MYBREF.ST PAULHC1.ET TESTBREF2.ST WW.ET GFSMOS.CFG MYBREF.ST.OLD PAULHCA.ET TESTBREF.ET XCDDEC.BAT GINI.CFG MYVIS.ET PAULPRET.ET TESTBREF.ST XCDDEC.VER GRAPHICS.KEY NAMMOS.CFG PAULVEL.ST TESTIR.ST XCD.NAM GRBFILER.CFG NAMMOS.RAP PIRPDEC.CFG TESTNEX.ST ZURBREF.ET GRIBDEC.CFG NBIN.CFG PPS.CFG TESTVAPOR5.ET ZURBREF.ST The files that jump out at me are: FRAMENH.001 GRAPHICS.KEY TERMCHAR.001 These files are supposed to only exist in a session specific subdirectory of ~mcidas/.mctmp. For instance: <as 'mcidas'> mcidas@climate:~/workdata$ mcenv mcidas@climate:~/workdata$ ls ~/.mctmp/552271900/ BASICVV1 FRAMED GRAPHICS.KEY STRTABLE Frame1.0 FRAMENH.001 mcclean.lock TERMCHAR.001 The most typical way that these files can end up in the $MCDATA directory is that environment variables needed for McIDAS sessions (remember a script will create a McIDAS session) are not defined and/or not properly defined. The thing that is needed now is to figure out which script(s) need to be modified to fully set environment variables needed by McIDAS. Can you verify if the full set of scripts that need to be looked at are the ones run from 'cron' in the 'mcidas' account? If yes, this looks to be: 00 21 * * * /home/ldm/util/mcscour.sh >> /dev/null 2>&1 12 * * * * /home/mcidas/paulsbatches/createmeso.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1 45 07 * * * /home/mcidas/paulsbatches/createmaps.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1 10 1,2,13,14 * * * /home/mcidas/paulsbatches/createhodo.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1 11 1,2,13,14 * * * /home/mcidas/crosskickoff CROSS.BAT >> /dev/null 2>&1 5,20,35,50 * * * * /home/mcidas/paulsbatches/createprofilers.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1 45 1,13 * * * /home/mcidas/paulsbatches/createcanadahodo.pl >> /dev/null 2>&1 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: GYT-719991 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Open