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Maureen,

That seems to say that something went wrong in the transfer, or the
file is not a gempak file. 

If you'll ftp the file to me into ~gbuddy/incoming, I'll look at it.

Steve


>From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>Keywords: 199902012049.NAA11342

>No I get the same error running gdinfo on the command line :
> [FL -1]  File  does not exist.
>Everything is where it "normally" is when we run things.
>
>The GEMPAK programs start okay - they just don't like the files that I downloa
> ded
>today. It's really weird.
>
>Maureen
>
>Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> Hmm,
>> I assume that you can run gdinfo on the command line and
>> look at the contents of the file. You mentioned you
>> moved the file to a different machine (is the script being
>> run locally on that machine?)
>>
>> Cound the error message "file not found" be coming from somewhere
>> else in the script, like not finding the GEMPAK program?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> >From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>> >Keywords: 199902011953.MAA09851
>>
>> >Steve,
>> >
>> >That's the killer - I echoed the full path and everything and the unix mach
> ine
>> >lists the file as:
>> >-rw-r--r--   1 1003     staff     265567 Feb  1 14:33
>> >/ldmdata/gempak/hds/99020100_nhmrf.gem
>> >
>> >exactly what I expected.
>> >
>> >It's weird! When we got the 12z runs in today they worked fine - it seems t
> o h
>> > ave
>> >something to do with the download but I don't know what.
>> >
>> >Maureen
>> >
>> >Unidata Support wrote:
>> >
>> >> Maureen,
>> >>
>> >> if you can list the file interactively, but can't access it in a script,
>> >> You should probably check any path, or directory changes in the script.
>> >> If you are running the script from cron, then the script is executed from
>> >> the home level directory- so you would either have to cd to the
>> >> appropriate directory or use full path names.
>> >>
>> >> Another reason scripts fail occasionally is that they don't have your ful
> l
>> >> environment, and environmental variables aren't defined.
>> >>
>> >> Try either using the complete path name, or echoing out what directory
>> >> and filename the script is in and see if that matches what you expect.
>> >>
>> >> Steve Chiswell
>> >> Unidata User Support
>> >>
>> >> >From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>> >> >Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>> >> >Keywords: 199902011939.MAA09529
>> >>
>> >> >Steve,
>> >> >
>> >> >When I came in today (monday) I found out that we once again had
>> >> >problems receiving data over the weekend. Robb has already set us up
>> >> >with another upstream site (niu) to replace our other one (uwyo). Since
>> >> >we hadn't gotten a full model run all weekend, I went to David Knight
>> >> >site at albany (he had sent me an e-mail when we had model problems last
>> >> >week) to get the data. I downloaded it the same way I did before (to
>> >> >disk and then binary ftp'd to the proper computer). Transfer went fine,
>> >> >but whenever I tried to reference the file in a script I got the error,
>> >> >File does not exist.
>> >> >
>> >> >I can list the file, it has the proper permissions/ownership - any idea
>> >> >why I would get that error? More curiosity than anything else.
>> >> >
>> >> >Thanks!
>> >> >
>> >> >Maureen
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>Maureen Moore Ballard                   address@hidden
>Staff Meteorologist                           ph:  606-257-3000ext244
>Ag. Weather Center                         fax: 606-257-5671
>243 Ag. Engineering Bldg
>Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr.
>University of Kentucky
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