19990930: XCD setup at Utah State University (cont.)

>From: "Dan A. Dansereau" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Utah State University
>Keywords: 199909151552.JAA07318 McIDAS FRONT FRNTDISP

Dan,

>    I have move the /var/data to /db00/data changed the appropriate
>files ( i think ) and put a soft link in the /var directory.  ( I  did
>this because the alpha is very tough to get back up after running out
>of disk space in /var ) The bottom line is I broke xcd again (
>partially ) the surface data is missing ( sfcplot ) etc would you mind
>taking one more look??

What you didn't change was the set of REDIRECTions for the user 'mcidas'.
I did the following to get things going again:

<login as 'mcidas'>

cd data
<edit LOCAL.NAM and change /var/data/xcd to /db00/data/xcd and /var/data/mcidas
 to /db00/data/mcidas>
cd ~/workdata
redirect.k REST LOCAL.NAM
redirect.k ADD MDXX\* \"/db00/data/xcd

<login as ldm>
ldmadmin stop
mv xcd_run decoders/xcd_run.old
ldmadmin start

The stuff as 'mcidas' was to setup the file REDIRECTions.  Each user should
do the two REDIRECT steps above.  The second forces the entries in the
REDIRECTion list to be properly sorted for use.

As 'ldm' I found an errant copy of xcd_run in the home directory, and
the PATH for 'ldm' had '.' in it.  The copy of xcd_run that had been
setup for use at USU was the one in ~ldm/decoders.  After the mv, this
version would be used by the LDM.

The LDM had to be stopped and restarted since REDIRECTions after being
initially read become memory resident.  The only way to force the XCD
routines that were running (e.g. startxcd.k, ingebin.k, ingetext.k, dmgrid.k,
dmsrc.k, dmmisc.k, dmraob.e, dmsyn.k) to have a correct set of REDIRECTions
was to stop and restart them (by way of the LDM stop and restart) since
they have to read this information on initial start.

As I write this, I see that a new surface file has been created and has
data:

<login as 'mcidas'>
cd workdata
dmap.k MDXX
tornado1.climate.usu.edu> dmap.k MDXX
PERM      SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME DIRECTORY
---- --------- ------------ -------- ---------
-r--  26541036 Oct 01 08:41 MDXX0003 /db00/data/xcd
-r--  20230936 Oct 01 08:46 MDXX0004 /db00/data/xcd
-rwx   3871004 Sep 30 19:18 MDXX0013 /db00/data/xcd
-r--   2749216 Oct 01 08:46 MDXX0014 /db00/data/xcd
-rwx   1456832 Sep 30 17:59 MDXX0023 /db00/data/xcd
-r--    880960 Oct 01 08:46 MDXX0024 /db00/data/xcd
-rwx   5023444 Sep 30 17:59 MDXX0033 /db00/data/xcd
-r--   3043156 Oct 01 08:45 MDXX0034 /db00/data/xcd
-rwx   8035624 Oct 01 08:21 MDXX0053 /db00/data/xcd
-r--   4699312 Oct 01 08:45 MDXX0054 /db00/data/xcd
-r--   3888392 Oct 01 08:46 MDXX0064 /db00/data/xcd
-rwx     64984 Sep 30 18:01 MDXX0073 /db00/data/mcidas
-rw-    120904 Oct 01 08:42 MDXX0074 /db00/data/mcidas
80605800 bytes in 13 files

tornado1.climate.usu.edu> mdl.k 4

--RECORD AT (ROW,COL) = (   1,2997)

|TYPE =         0      | DAY  =   1999274 CYD  | TIME =         0 HMS
|NREC =         1      | ID   =      TVSV      | LAT  =   13.1333 DEG
|LON  =   61.2000 DEG  | ZS   =        13 M    | ST   =
|CO   =        LC      | MOD  =         0      | HMS  =         0 HMS
|CIGC =         2      | CC1  =         1      | CIGH =     4500. FT
|ZCL1 =     1800. FT   | VIS  =       7.0 MI   | WX1  =
|WX2  =                | T    =    301.16 K    | TD   =    297.16 K
|DIR  =       120 DEG  | SPD  =       3.6 MPS  | PSL  =   1014.00 MB
mdl.k: DONE

It looks like things are running again.  Please let me know if there
is something else amiss.

Tom