Re: Running Ferret in batch mode

[Jörg Kaduk <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Francisco,

I plot from a shell script, too. I set the a couple of
environment variable explicitly in the csh scipt from
which I call ferret. Here is what I do:

setenv FER_DIR /opt/ferret
source $FER_DIR/ferret_paths > /dev/null
Faddpath  /export/home/jasedy/data/lastdata > /dev/null
Faddpath  /opt/ferret/bin >  /dev/null

ferret -gif < pc >& /dev/null

Good luck,
Joerg

> 
>     Hi ferreters
> 
>     I am trying to produce gif plots daily at eight in the morning. So
> I've written a shell script that daily gets the data via ftp and then
> run ferret to produce the gif files. But I always get the same error,
> the gif files are not created when I run the script via cron; but
> everything works fine if I run the script in a terminal window.
> 
>     The general shell script call a different script for every gif file
> (change dirs, rename data files,...) and this specific scripts contain
> the follwing line to run ferret:
> 
>     ferret -unmapped < humtem.jnl
> 
>     And the error message I get is :
> 
>     "The Ferret environment has not been properly set up.
>     (The environment variable FER_DIR is not defined)"
> 
>     I add ferret paths to the environment when opening a terminal with
> the source line in .cshrc. How can I do this in batch mode?
> 
>     Running Ferret v4.45 in HP-UX.10.20
> 
>     Thanks in advance
> 
>     Paco
> 
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> Francisco Pastor
> Meteorology Department
> Fundacion CEAM, Spain
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