To begin this procedure, you must be logged on as user mcidas, and you must have already built and installed McIDAS-X.
After completing the steps outlined in Preparing the mcidas Account, logoff and then log back on to force the settings to take effect.
This will build and install the Unidata McIDAS-XCD executable, help, and ancillary data files in the ~mcidas/bin, ~mcidas/help, ~mcidas/data, and ~mcidas/workdata directories.
First, become the user running the LDM (assumed here to be the user ldm):
Use your favorite text editor to modify the appropriate pqact.conf file:
# Entries for XCD decoders IDS|DDPLUS ^.* PIPE xcd_run DDS HRS|NGRID ^.* PIPE xcd_run HRS CONDUIT ^.* PIPE xcd_run NCON
# Entries for XCD decoders #IDS|DDPLUS ^.* PIPE # xcd_run DDS #HRS|NGRID ^.* PIPE # xcd_run HRS #CONDUIT ^.* PIPE # xcd_run NCON
and then check the pattern-action file just edited for gross errors, and, if there are none, send a HUP signal to pqact:
Next, kill the process startxcd.k:
Note that there may be two invocations of startxcd.k running; if thre are, then one should be the child of the other.
Finally, exit back to the mcidas login:
After completing any required actions, you can logoff.