GrADS DODS Win XP -> Linux

[Dan Martin]

You may need the 1.9 grads. I had this problem when I changed servers and loading RH9 version fixed it. 


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Derek Goring 
  To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 12:44 AM
  Subject: Re: GrADS DODS Win XP -> Linux


  JP

  You're right I do have .dodsrc though I don't know where it came from.
  Here it is:
  # DODS client configuation file. See the DODS
  # users guide for information.
  USE_CACHE=1
  MAX_CACHE_SIZE=20
  MAX_CACHED_OBJ=5
  IGNORE_EXPIRES=0
  CACHE_ROOT=/home/mulgor/.dods_cache/
  DEFAULT_EXPIRES=86400
  ALWAYS_VALIDATE=0
  # PROXY_SERVER=<protocol>,<host url>
  # PROXY_FOR=<regex>,<proxy host url>,<flags>
  # NO_PROXY_FOR=<protocol>,<host>

  But I don't have a proxy server.
  I'm connecting directly to the Internet (as far as I know).
  I've looked at the DODS users guide, but found nothing about proxy or no_proxy.


  Jean Pierre Arabonis <arabonis at EGS.UCT.AC.ZA> wrote:
    Hi 
        I think it is either a problem with proxy server ie where you have a file called .dodsrc in your home directory which looks somthing like:

    # DODS client configuation file. See the DODS
    # users guide for information.
    USE_CACHE=1
    MAX_CACHE_SIZE=5
    MAX_CACHED_OBJ=1
    IGNORE_EXPIRES=0
    CACHE_ROOT=/home/arabonis/.dods_cache/
    DEFAULT_EXPIRES=86400
    ALWAYS_VALIDATE=0
    # PROXY_SERVER=<protocol>,<host url>
    # PROXY_FOR=<regex>,<proxy host url>,<flags>
    # NO_PROXY_FOR=<protocol>,<host>
    PROXY_SERVER=http,http://cache.uct.ac.za:8080
    PROXY_FOR=http://cola8.iges.org:9090/dods/.*
    PROXY_FOR=http://www.monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/.*

        Otherwise you need to use the statically linked version of the source if you want to compile it yourself.

        Cheers
           JP



    Derek Goring wrote:

      Hi JP

      Yes, I can ping monsoondata.org OK.
      It appears to me that I'm getting into GrADS DODS.
      A session opens for me in console and I can move around inside and execute various commands, except that sdfopen doesn't work, as indicated.

      But one thing that is different from DOS is that in Linux the session opens in the console, whereas in DOS a special new window opens.  Actually, that's the reason I'm porting to Linux because if a server is not available or any error occurs, that window hangs horribly and stuffs up Win XP.

      Does gradsdods need anything else other that access to data?
      Does it need a netCDF library or something?  It has access only to gradsdods at present.
      BTW, I'm using grads-1.8sl11

      Derek

      Jean Pierre Arabonis <arabonis at EGS.UCT.AC.ZA> wrote: 
        Hi there
            This seems more to be a network problem, see if you can ping the monsoondata server from the box, if not then thats the area to look in, otherwise if you are behind a proxy server you may need a .dodsrc config script to point grads to go via the proxy server.

            Cheers
               JP



        Derek Goring wrote:

          I'm moving from Win XP to Linux with my GrADS DODS routines.
          I'm a newbie in Linux, but I've managed to install gradsdods OK and once I set GIDDIR using export, it seems to open OK.  However, when I try to open a file, this is what I get:

          sdfopen http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z
          Scanning self-describing file:  http://nomad3.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/rotating/gfs_12z
          nc_open failure:
          Invalid argument
           does not exist or is not a netCDF file.s/rotating/gfs_12z

          Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
          If this was an HDF-SDS file, try gradshdf.

          Yet this same command works OK in Win XP.
          Can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong?



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      Derek Goring
      Mulgor Consulting Ltd
      24 Brockworth Place
      Christchurch, New Zealand
      Phone: 64 3 343 5400
      Mobile: 64 272 777 639
      Website: www.mulgor.co.nz 
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