[McIDAS #UNZ-611727]: MCTABLE.TXT permission problem

Hi Greg,

re:
> I'm trying to add a new adde server via dataloc
> (gp16.ssd.nesdis.noaa.gov). Here's what I typed and the results:
> 
> gstoss@ingest:~/mcidas/data> dataloc.k ADD PUB 140.90.195.198
> dataloc.k: First occurrence of MCTABLE.TXT found in list of
> dataloc.k: MCPATH directories is not writable, run:
> 
> DMAP MCTABLE.TXT FORM=ALL
> 
> dataloc.k: to show all occurrences of MCTABLE.TXT in MCPATH
> 
> then:
> 
> gstoss@ingest:~/mcidas/data> dmap.k MCTABLE.TXT FORM=ALL
> PERM      SIZE LAST CHANGED FROM  PATHNAME
> ---- --------- ------------ ----  --------
> -rwx      1057 Feb 03  2006 M     /home/gstoss/mcidas/data/MCTABLE.TXT
> 1057 bytes in 1 files
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

It doesn't look like you are doing anything wrong.

> I have permission to edit this file but dataloc
> says it can't write to this file. DMAP didn't show me any other
> occurences of this file.

Please let me know the value of the MCTABLE_READ and MCTABLE_WRITE
environment variables from the Unix shell in which you launched
McIDAS:

<as 'gstoss'>
echo $MCTABLE_READ
echo $MCTABLE_WRITE


Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: UNZ-611727
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed

Date:    Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:14:02 MDT
To:      address@hidden

From:    Greg Stossmeister <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [McIDAS #UNZ-611727]: MCTABLE.TXT permission problem

Tom,
   OK - I think I figured it out. I looked at the documentation again
and changed my MCTABLE_WRITE to point to my copy of MCTABLE.TXT instead
of the mcidas user's ADDESITE.TXT. The dataloc command now appears to
work. Thanks for your help!

Greg