20000424: McIDAS-XCD grib decoding on wxmcidas; ADDE setup; scouring

>From: "Robert Mullenax" <address@hidden>
>Organization: NMSU/NSBF
>Keywords: 199807271936.NAA29300 McIDAS-XCD IDD MRF

Robert,

Since I knew that you recently were working to resurrect wxmcidas, I
had the occasion to point my McIDAS session at its ADDE server for
RTGRIDS.  I became curious about the amount of GRID files you were
keeping on the machine (4 days) and the inability to correctly list out
ETA grids using:

GRDLIST RTGRIDS/ETA.ALL FORM=FILE

Since you had provided me with login information for wxmcidas
previously, I logged on to snoop around -- I hope you don't mind --
(insatiable curiousity).

I found a couple of things that you might want to look into:

o GRID file scouring is not working: the user 'mcidas' has been getting
  emails from the system warning:

  /export/home/mcidas/workdata/mcscour.sh: /home/mcidas/workdata/scour.log: 
cannot create

  This turns out to be caused by MCHOME being defined as /home/mcidas
  instead of /export/home/mcidas in ~mcidas/workdata/mcscour.sh.  It
  seems likely that your old copy of mcscour.sh was overwritten by a
  new installation/update.  This is an artifact of how I install things
  in a 'make install.all'.  I really need to change my recommendations
  and or installation to:

  o install mcscour.sh in ~mcidas/data

  o instruct people to make a copy of it in either the ~mcidas/workdata
    or ~mcidas/bin directory and edit and use that copy in a cron entry

o the reason that the above GRDLIST does not work is that the entries for
  ETA in ~mcidas/workdata/RESOLV.SRV need to be updated to match GRID
  decoding defined in ~mcidas/workdata/RTMODELS.CFG

I was set to modify ~mcidas/workdata/mcscour.sh and ~mcidas/workdata/RESOLV.SRV
when I decided that you might be testing something out, and I would screw
you up by doing so.

I figure that you _will_ want to get the scouring working, since wxmcidas
will run out of disk space in /var/data fairly soon:

/export/home/mcidas/workdata% df -k
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
/dev/dsk/c0d0s0        97781   18982   69021    22%    /
/dev/dsk/c0d0s6       724735  510188  156569    77%    /usr
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
/dev/dsk/c0d0s3       179515   69276   92288    43%    /var
/dev/dsk/c0d1s4      5845599 2304803 3482341    40%    /backup
/dev/dsk/c0d0s7      2510214 1948224  511786    80%    /export/home
/dev/dsk/c0d0s4      3013654 1020725 1932656    35%    /opt
/dev/dsk/c0d0s5      1098765  190068  853759    19%    /usr/local
/dev/dsk/c2t4d0s7    17633178 15135983 2320864    87%    /var/data
swap                  750352      52  750300     1%    /tmp

Later...

Tom

>From address@hidden Mon Apr 24 19:10:23 2000
>Subject: Re: 20000424: McIDAS-XCD grib decoding on wxmcidas; ADDE setup; 
>scouring

Thanks for catching that Tom!

I always forget to go back in and change the mcscour script!

I am going back out to New Mexico tommorrow.  I replaced the failed
hard drive and as you see sort of have it running.

The file defintions changes are not finished as you see.
I started changing the RTMODELS.CFG files I just ran out of time.

Thanks again,
Robert