20010605: FNEXRAD

David,

This may be picky ... but GEMPAK is probably converting the RADAR
directory name in your file template to lower case.
You can try: /neops_data/gempak/images/radar/YYYYMMDD_radr.gem
and see if that works.

The decoder may have creates the RADAR directory, but then the
file write may be going to the "radar".

Let me know if this doesn't solve your problems.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: David Fitzgerald <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200106051845.f55Ijvp16010

>Chiz,
>
>Following up on your E-mail to Rich about getting the FNEXRAD feed going here,
>    
>I'm playing around with our LDM and not having much success.  Following the 
>examples on the support pages and in your E-mail, I set my ldmd.conf request 
>line to be: 
>request FNEXRAD ".*" 192.52.106.21  
>
>and yes I'm pulling it from thelma.  I also have the allows and accept lines 
>entered.  ldmadmin watch shows it coming across my feed, with a typical "watch
>  
>line" looking like this:
>
>Jun 05 16:42:16 pqutil:    69518 20010605164012.293 FNEXRAD 000  
>radar_mosaic_regional !grib/unidata/2/#255/200106051636/F000/N0R/sfc! 000000
>
>
>My pqact.conf file entry for FNEXRAD is:
># RADAR MOSAIC Grids
>FNEXRAD \t ^radar_mosaic_national
>\t     PIPE \t -close \t /software/nawips5.6/bin/sol/dcgrib2 -d 
>/programs/ldm/log/dcgrib2.log
>\t     -e GEMTBL=/software/nawips5.6/gempak/tables
>\t     /neops_data/gempak/images/RADAR/YYYYMMDD_radr.gem
>
>where \t denotes a tab in case it doesn't E-mail to you correctly.
>
>The log file spits out the following:
>
>[23218] 010605/1436 [DC 3]
>[23218] 010605/1436 [FL -3] 
>/neops_data/data/gempak/images/RADAR/20010605_radr.gem
>[23218] 010605/1436 [DM -1] 
>/neops_data/data/gempak/images/RADAR/20010605_radr.gem
>[23218] 010605/1436 [GD -1] 
>/neops_data/data/gempak/images/RADAR/20010605_radr.gem
>[23218] 010605/1436 [DCGRIB 2] Error creating file [-1]: 
>/neops_data/data/gempak/images/RADAR/20010605_radr.gem
>[23218] 010605/1436 [DC 5]
>[23218] 010605/1436 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>[23218] 010605/1436 [DC 6]  
>
>I don't understand why DCGRIB2 is not creating the file.  Permissions are set 
>for the LDM user to write to the directory.  Do you see anything?
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!!
>
>Dave
>
>
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>David Fitzgerald   
>System Administrator            Phone: (717) 871-2394  
>Millersville University        Fax: (717) 871-4725 
>Millersville, PA 17551                 E-mail: address@hidden
>