Re: ncl_filedump crontab make error

Ahmed,

It's most likely a problem where you haven't set your NCARG_ROOT
environmental variable by the time you call this command in the crontab. If
you can source your default resource file for your user account or work a

setenv NCARG_ROOT /path/to/ncarg/

line into this same crontab entry, I would think that things should work
better. If your resource file (for csh/tcsh, it's often .cshrc/.tcshrc)
sources the PATH as well, you can simplify the command used to call
ncl_filedump as well.

In general, it's easier if you write a shell script to encapsulate all
these commands, even if it is just 2-3 lines.

Hope that helps...

Kyle

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Kyle S. Griffin
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 W Dayton St, Madison, WI 53706
Room 1421 Email: ksgriffin2@wisc.edu

On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Ahmed Lasheen <ahmed4kernel@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all
> I am trying to write script that use ncl_filedump utilitty in operational
> way using the crontab utility.
>
> I found that the ncl_filedum make the following error
> *ncargpath: Command not found.*
> *if: Missing file name.*
>
> I opend the the ncl_filedump and it seems that the problem is with
> creating temporary file at line 339.
> *set tmpdir = `ncargpath tmp`*
> *if (! -w $tmpdir) then*
> * echo "Temporary directory $tmpdir does not exist or is not writable;
> cannot proceed (check environment variable TMPDIR)"*
> * exit(1)*
> *endif*
>
> If you want to try that you can put the following line in crontab
> ** * * * * /usr/local/ncl_6.0.0/bin/ncl_filedump /home/ahmed/surface.grb
> >> /home/ahmed/log.`date +\%y\%m\%d\%H\%M` 2>&1*
> with just change my home to your home name and also change the name of
> grib file.
>
> anybody knows a solution to that problem. I am using ncl 6.0.0 and Fedora
> linux.
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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> ===============
> Ahmed Lasheen
> Junior researcher at Cairo Numerical Weather Prediction Center (CNWPC)
> Egyptian Meteorological Authority(EMA)
> Cairo,Egypt
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>
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