20001220: gempak decoder related to ldm

Ning,

Make sure that the directories that the decoders will be writing to exist
and are writable by the ldm, eg:
~ldm/data/gempak/upperair, ~ldm/data/gempak/logs, and ~ldm/data/gempak/nldn

Also, check the log files of the decoders for messages in:
~ldm/data/gempak/logs/dcuair.log

I see that dcuair was started up by pqact in the logs you show below.
The decoder log in the above directory would be the place to look as to
why nothing was written.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



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>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200012210209.eBL29Uo21201

>
>Hi
>
>I have  installed ldm-5.0.9 or IRIX 6.2. When I started ldm, I can get 
>raw data something like 00120523_upa.wmo, 00120505_sao.wmo.
>However, we got problem related to gempak decoders. For example,
>in our pqact.conf, we have 
>
>DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        PIPE    decoders/dcuair -b 24 -m 16
>        -d data/gempak/logs/dcuair.log
>        -e GEMTBL=/usr/people/gempak/nawips-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
>        -s snstns.tbl
>        data/gempak/upperair/YYYYMMDD_upa.gem
>#
>
>NLDN    ^.*
>        PIPE    decoders/dcnldn -m 25000 -b 30 -s minute05
>        -d data/gempak/logs/dcnldn.log
>        -e GEMTBL=/usr/people/gempak/nawips-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
>        data/gempak/nldn/YYYYMMDDHHNN_nldn.gem
>
>But we have not got any data like xxx_upa.gem and xx_nldn.gem even after 
>ldm had been running 24 hours.
>
>The info the log file looks like this:
>
>Dec 08 01:56:22 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  40352.702 kb/hr 
>(  8788.401 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:01:24 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  40248.479 kb/hr 
>(  8791.487 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:06:25 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  40141.313 kb/hr 
>(  8787.407 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:11:28 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  40061.507 kb/hr 
>(  8803.756 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:16:31 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  40004.324 kb/hr 
>(  8813.639 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:21:33 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  39942.689 kb/hr 
>(  8818.159 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:26:35 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  40015.089 kb/hr 
>(  8827.237 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:31:37 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  39918.230 kb/hr 
>(  8821.426 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:36:38 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  39810.760 kb/hr 
>(  8811.066 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:41:39 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  39780.820 kb/hr 
>(  8808.346 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:46:41 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  39700.409 kb/hr 
>(  8804.717 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:51:43 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Recycled  39659.040 kb/hr 
>(  8812.742 prods per hour)
>Dec 08 02:56:13 5Q:maelstrom2 rpc.ldmd[9640]: Exiting
>Dec 08 02:56:14 5Q:maelstrom2 rpc.ldmd[9640]: Terminating process group
>Dec 08 02:56:14 5Q:maelstrom2 DCUAIR[10501]: Terminate Signal
>Dec 08 02:56:14 5Q:maelstrom2 pqbinstats[9642]: Exiting
>Dec 08 02:56:14 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: Exiting
>Dec 08 02:56:14 5Q:maelstrom2 pqexpire[9641]: > Up since:      
>20001207003537.629
>
>
>Any suggestion ? Thanks!
>