19990129: watch boxes...

>Steve,
>
>Yeah - I did recompile everything last week. I just realized, our ldm is on
>another machine (kelvin). The entry in the pqact.conf file is set to pipe thin
> gs
>through the decoder on kelvin but when I looked at that directory, dcwatch if 
> a
>file and not a directory. The listing is:
>total 6252
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     211168 Apr  7  1998 dcamos
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     212424 Apr  7  1998 dcffg
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     262096 Apr  7  1998 dcgrib
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     304612 Apr  7  1998 dchrly
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     211776 Apr  7  1998 dcmmos
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     191488 Apr  7  1998 dcnldn
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     215704 Apr  7  1998 dcnmos
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     259504 Apr  7  1998 dcprof
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     214264 Apr  7  1998 dcstorm
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     256744 Apr  7  1998 dcsynop
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     206968 Apr  7  1998 dctrop
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     232816 Apr  7  1998 dcuair
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff     245728 Apr  7  1998 dcwatch
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 ldm      staff      10773 Jun  3  1997 ldmConnect
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      staff       1473 Jun  3  1997 ldmConnect.doc
>-rw-r--r--   1 ldm      staff       8497 Jun  3  1997 ldmConnect.tar.Z
>kelvin% pwd
>/usr/local/ldm/decoders
>
>Could this be the "problem"? Any ideas as to how to fix it if it is?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Maureen
>

Maureen,
It is preferable to have copies of decoders local to the machine
that is doing the decoding instead of having to nfs mount the
directories from another machine- in case the other machine is down etc.

We updated both dchrly and dcwatch with fixes, so you should update
those files on kelvin as well. If the machine is the same OS, etc.
you should be able to just copy over the executables. Make sure you can run 
the decoder from the command line first on that machine before commiting it
to the local disk. You can create symnolic links from the ~ldm/decoders 
directory to
the actual executables in your $GEMEXE directory as well (just remember this
is the case if you start updating GEMPAK and deleting decoders etc.).

Steve Chiswell