<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I use GrADS to generate RTMA temperature graphics every hour. Cron runs my scripts and GrADS generates the graphics in batch mode.<div><br></div><div>About once or twice a day, the graphic output doesn’t work. I get this error message:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Failed to open file.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">*** FATAL ERROR: could not open file: rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranal_ndfd.grb2 ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Big problem:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"> either rtma2p5.t21z.2dvaranal_ndfd.grb2 is missing or not a grib file</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"> or wgrib2 is not on your path or wgrib2 is too old</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"> or can not write to /tmp/g.28979.0.tmp (full disk or permissions).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing XDEF record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing YDEF record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing ZDEF record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing TDEF record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing UNDEF record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing DSET record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Open Error: missing VARS record </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;"> The data file was not opened. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.1</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Copyright (c) 1988-2011 by Brian Doty and the</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">See file COPYRIGHT for more information</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Config: v2.0.1 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;">Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait): </div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Any idea what is causing this?</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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