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Re: pqsurf and pqsurf.conf

On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Christian Page wrote:

> 
> Do I need to remove the actions from pqact.conf that I put in pqsurf.conf? 

Christian,

Not really they will not match any products because they are lower case.
But if you have some uppercase patterns in pqact.conf going to the same
files then the files will be corrupt because of two writes to an open
file.  Use different destination files name until you get the
configuration that you want.

Also do run pqsurf from the command line.

Robb...

Do
> you think the following action is ok :
> 
> International sfc obs and specials in hourly files yymmddhh_sao.wmo
> WMO   ^s[ap].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>       STDIOFILE       \n      data/surface/sao/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2_sao.wmo
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Robb Kambic wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Christian Page wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   When my ldmd starts up, it complains that pqsurf.conf cannot be found. I
> > > checked the man page for pqsurf, but it is not clear for me how to 
> > > configure
> > > pqact.conf and pqsurf.conf accordingly to use pqsurf. I am not sure 
> > > neither if I
> > > need to run pqsurf. 
> > 
> > 
> > Christian,
> > 
> > The pqsurf.conf file is located in the etc/  directory along with the
> > pqact.conf file.  It uses the same type of actions as pqact but the file
> > names are usually lower case.  ie,
> > 
> > WMO    ^sao .. (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])  
> >        DBFILE  /weather/ddp/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.sa_gdb \1
> > WMO    ^sao ... (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) 
> >        DBFILE  /weather/ddp/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.sa_gdb \1
> > DDPLUS    ^sao USP (...) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) 
> >        FILE    data/weather/sao/(\2:yy)(\2:mm)\2\3.URGENT
> > 
> > One can run pqsurf from the command line to see what the products look
> > like if it's a standard LDM configuration, otherwise one needs to use all 
> > the flags:
> > 
> > % pqsurf -vl - 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It seems that it would eliminate duplicate entries for WMO
> > > sfc obs. Anyone has an example of pqact.conf when using pqsurf, and an 
> > > example
> > > of pqsurf.conf?
> > > 
> > 
> > It will eliminate duplicate reports if the reports are exactly the same. I
> > don't know if the bulletin times will cause the reports to look
> > differently.
> > 
> > Don't forget to make the surfqueue.
> > 
> > % ldmadmin mksurfqueue
> > 
> > 
> > Give it a try and let me know how it works out.
> > 
> > Robb...
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Christian Page      finger address@hidden => tel. + adresse
> > > address@hidden    http://www.sca.uqam.ca/
> > > 
> > > Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant
> > > Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Universite McGill / McGill Radar
> > > 
> > 
> > ===============================================================================
> > Robb Kambic                            Unidata Program Center
> > Software Engineer III                          Univ. Corp for Atmospheric 
> > Research
> > address@hidden                 WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
> > ===============================================================================
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> Christian Page      finger address@hidden => tel. + adresse
> address@hidden    http://www.sca.uqam.ca/
> 
> Assistant de recherche / Research Assistant
> Universite du Quebec a Montreal / Universite McGill / McGill Radar
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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