>From: William C Klein <address@hidden> >Organization: Valparaiso >Keywords: 200204101351.g3ADpma28875 McIDAS-XCD ldm-mcidas Bill, >I've followed the instructions for the NLDN up to the chmod 666 SCHEMA. >I'm not following the lines after that. The lines in question are: o you setup appropriate file REDIRECTions so that your 'mcidas' account can find the files into which the NLDN lightning data is to be decoded o you setup the RTPTSRC dataset in the 'mcidas' account to access the decoded NLDN data The first line deals with setting up your 'mcidas' account to read/write MD files in the directory you are planning on decoding to. Since your other decoding is working, and the files are being found by McIDAS, this step is probably OK. The second line refers to the setting up of the ADDE dataset to access the data in those MD files. Since the other parts of the ADDE dataset are setup correctly on aeolus (I can point to your machine from mine and check this from here), it means that the dataset is setup correctly. The most likely thing at this point is that you are not decoding the NLDN lightning data. >Here's what I get from the stack trace when I try to access lightning >data: > >can't read "ptPltDays(LIGHTNING)": no such element in array > while executing >"lsearch $ptPltDays($ptPltType) *$ptPltDay($ptPltType)*" > invoked from within >"$postprocess invoke" > (command bound to event) This says that there is no data in the RTPTSRC/LIGHTNING dataset on your machine (I am assuming that the DATALOC for RTPTSRC (POINT) dataset on your machine is aeolus.valpo.edu). In turn, this says that NLDN decoding is not working. So, did you setup your LDM to request the NLDN data from SUNY Albany? This would be a line in ~ldm/ldmd.conf that looks like: request NLDN ".*" 169.226.43.58 or request NLDN ".*" striker.atmos.albany.edu Remember, that after making a modification in the LDM ldmd.conf file, you must stop and restart your LDM for the change to take effect: ldmadmin stop <wait until all LDM processes have exited; use 'ps -u ldm' to check this> ldmadmin start Now, before you can successfully ingest NLDN data, you would have had to secure permission for the data from Dr. David Knight of SUNY Albany (his email is: address@hidden). Did you get SUNY Albany to allow you to request the NLDN data from them? If the answer to the last question was no, or if you did not add a request line for NLDN in your ~ldm/ldmd.conf file, then you will not be receiving NLDN data. A quick way to check if you are being allowed to request the data is by running the LDM application 'notifyme' from your machine to the SUNYA machine as the user 'ldm': notifyme -vxl- -f NLDN -o 3600 -h striker.atmos.albany.edu If you get an OK status back from the notifyme invocation, you are allowed to request the data. If you get a denied/error, you are not and will have to contact David for permission. Tom
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