Dave, On Friday, the delta-encoded LWTOA3 images were removed from the data stream. You should be using the pnga2area ldm-mcidas action to store the images now. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: Dave Dempsey <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200009181632.e8IGWHb04705 >*> From address@hidden Sun Sep 17 19:07 PDT 2000 >*> Subject: Re: MCIDAS images via LDM >*> To: address@hidden (Dave Dempsey) >*> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:07:24 -0700 (PDT) >*> >*> Per my messages of last week, you need to switch from grayskies >*> (128.95.89.2) to sunny89 (128.95.89.38). > >Harry, > >Sorry to inflict that message on you--I thought I'd figured out the >problem before I sent the message to you. Turns out that we had a >separate "request" line in our ldmd.conf file for MCIDAS images, and >the machine was specified by IP address rather than machine name and I >missed it. > >However, after correcting that oversight, we seem to be getting MCIDAS >images but no longer saving them: > > Data reception log example: > >20000918125014 MCIDAS unidata.ssec.wisc.edu 16 5047002 > 16.50 address@hidden 20000918125021 > >An example line in pqact.conf is: > >MCIDAS ^LWTOA3.*DIALPROD=U9 > PIPE -close /usr/local/wxp/bin/mc2area -p /h/data/mcidas/gwvis %y%m% > d%H_svi.mca > >This has worked fine for years but suddenly stopped working after we >switched to sunny89. There are no error messages in our LDM logs, and >we're getting all of our other data. > >Thinking that the invocation of the WXP program "mc2area" might have >been the problem, I added an alternative: > >MCIDAS ^LWTOA3.*DIALPROD=U9 > FILE data/mcidas/gwvis/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_svi.mcu > >This produces zilch also. The problem applies to all 11 types of MCIDAS >images, for each of which we have a separate pqact.conf entry. > >To your knowledge, has the header line for MCIDAS images been affected >in some way by the switch to sunny89, or a change implemented >coincident with the switch, that might make our pqact.conf entries >obsolete? > >-- Dave > >**************************************************************** >* | __ __ \|/ * >* Dr. Dave Dempsey | ) ^ /|| ||\ --0-- * >* Dept. of Geosciences |) ) ^ / ||_|| \ /|\ * >* San Francisco State University | ) ) / | _ | \ * >* 1600 Holloway Ave. |) )/ || || \ * >* San Francisco, CA 94132 | ) ) ||_|| \ * >* |) ) ) | _ | \ * >* Phone: (415) 338-7716 | ) ) || || \ * >* FAX: (415) 338-7705 |) ) )~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* >* Email: address@hidden | ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ ~ * >* |) ) ) ) ~ ~ ~ * >**************************************************************** >
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