first check your registry.xml (in the same dir as your pqact ( s ) )
 
under <pqact>
 
you should see something like:
  <pqact>
    <config-path>/home/ldm/etc/pqact.conf</config-path>
    <datadir-path>/home/ldm/data</datadir-path>
 </pqact>
 
You may be actually writing the nexrad data, but it will be in a subdirectory 
of above.. such as you may actually have files writing in:
 
/home/ldm/data/data/gempaknwxrad/NIDS../…/
 
Etc..
 
The second most common mistake is checking that you have tabs instead of spaces 
in your entry:
 
NEXRAD3 <tab> ^SDUS….
<tab>FILE
 
These are the most common mistakes.. good luck :)
 
Cheers,
 
--patrick
 
 
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From: ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Latteri
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2015 2:04 PM
To: LDM <ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ldm-users] LDM pqact issue.
 
Hello, 
 
I am currently trying to add data to /data/gempak/ using the NEXRAD3 feed. 
However, I am running the following: 
NEXRAD3 ^SDUS[23578]. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...)
        FILE    -overwrite -close       
/data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3
 
But it isn't adding data to the directory, this isn't a permissions issue. I 
wanna note, I am using this LDM server also for AWIPS2. I don't know if 
AWIPS/EDEX is conflicting or not. 
 
 
-- 
Regards,
Keith Latteri
The Hurricane Network