Craig: Below is a failed tags message from a videoumatic job. Can you shed any light on this? ---------------------------------------------------------------- From oper@gulebra.ucar.EDU Mon Jun 8 13:09:59 1992 Return-Path: Received: from ncar.UCAR.EDU (holycross.scd.ucar.edu) by sting.hao.ucar.edu.hao (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06985; Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:09:58 MDT Received: from gulebra.ucar.edu by ncar.ucar.EDU (5.65/ NCAR Central Post Office 04/10/90) id AA22193; Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:09:56 MDT Date: Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:09:57 MDT From: oper@gulebra.ucar.EDU (operators) Message-Id: <9206081909.AA25538@gulebra.ucar.EDU> Received: by gulebra.ucar.EDU (5.65/ NCAR Mail Server 04/10/90) id AA25538; Mon, 8 Jun 92 13:09:57 MDT To: 7622@ncar.ucar.edu Subject: TAGS Job SH4533 FAILED (Translator Failed) Status: R JID: 81288 Input Parameters: FPS="10" MLCD="F2COFTHL" NAME="FOSTER" REQ="ncgm" SEQN="SH4533" SCI="7622" PROJ="28103032" MACR="videoumatic" Translator chain messages: forkoff: cat [25200] received signal 13 Translator chain exited with error Job 81288 statistics: Translator Failed Completed 0 of 1 copies Ran 10779 clock seconds Used 8024040 CPU milliseconds Produced 2739 frames Charged 0 GAUs ---------------------------------------------------------------- There is another job still queued which used the same cgm file, but macr=videosvhs instead of umatic. (both jobs were submitted withing 10 minutes of each other this past weekend): TAGS Camera 6 (VIDEO1) - Unknown - Scheme 2/0 - Max None - 15:04:54 92/06/08 QUE JID TAPE REQ COPY PRI STATE SIZE SCI NAME SEQN ENQED 2 80995 VHS NCGM 0/1 B 13 HELD 15624 4276 LAMAR SH1081 92/06/05 1 81287 SVHS NCGM 0/1 B 20 READY 232566 7622 FOSTER SH4230 92/06/07 3 81504 VHS NCGM 0/1 B 7 READY 3651 6451 CELIA VI5568 92/06/08 A comment: Both these jobs were submitted from a shavano (can we submit batch video to tags via migs yet?) $TMPDIR. I logged off of shavano soon after the two jobs were queued. Then I realized that when I logged off, the $TMPDIR and its files goes away including in this case the cgm file I gave the nettg command. So when it gets through the queue, can it find the file? How does this work? The failed mail message says it made 2739 frames, which sounds about right, so I guess it had the file. --Ben