Hi Paul, re: > In my /home/ldm directory I am getting hundreds of tmp files (0 bytes) > being created. Such as .tmp_netcdf.zyUFcI > > Is this normal? No, this is not normal. re: > And if not, what is the problem? .tmp_netcdf.<.....> files are created by the ldm-mcidas wind profiler decoder, proftomd. What the decoder does is: - read standard input (e.g., from products PIPEd to it from 'pqact') for wind profiler products (hourly and 6-minute) - write the product PIPEd to it to a temporary disk file The wind profiler products are netCDF files. 'proftomd' writes the file to a hidden file first since netCDF files are random access entities that must be completely received before they can be read for the data they contain. - convert the data in the netCDF file to appropriate format which is written to a McIDAS MDXX file - after the conversion, delete the temporary netCDF file The fact that you are seeing lots of .tmp_netcdf files is telling me that 'proftomd' is not completing its job normally. The question is why this is the case? One possibility is that the McIDAS MD schema file SCHEMA does not exist (or is zero length, or does not contain the wind profiler schemas, or is not readable, etc. by the user running 'proftomd') in the directory in which the output MDXX file is to be written. Please review the 'proftomd' invocation in your LDM pattern-action file action(s) to see where the output MDXX file is supposed to be written and then verify that there is a non-zero copy of SCHEMA in that directory that is readable by 'proftomd'. If nothing obvious jumps out at you, I will be happy to login to your machine and take a look. 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: HVN-765439 Department: Support ldm-mcidas Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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