MBARI OASIS3 Mooring Guide

Download OASIS3 Data

Manual OASIS Downloads

Introduction

Oasis3 downloads are governed by several cron jobs. Starting, stopping or changing the downloads is accomplished by using the UNIX crontab utility. oasisnt also uses the crontab utility.

The Procedure

Note that it turns off ALL OASIS processing, including EQPAC etc. It is important to turn it back on again when you are finished.

WindowsNT
Halt Downloads

Edit the oasis crontab file:

crontab -e

or remove the crontab file:

crontab -r

Resume Downloads

Install the crontab file:

crontab /oasis/bin/oasis.cron
(or whatever your crontab file is)

UNIX
Halt Downloads
  1. Log onto Tsunami as oasisa
  2. Enter the following command to halt the downloads:

    tsunami:/oasis/bin[38]> crontab -r

  3. You may verify that they are off by issuing the following command:

    4. tsunami:/oasis/bin[39]> crontab -l

  4. The system should respond with

crontab: can't open your crontab file.

Resume Downloads
  1. Log onto Tsunami as oasisa
  2. Enter the following command to resume downloads:

    tsunami:/oasis/bin[40]> crontab /oasis/bin/oasis.cron

  3. You may verify that they are on by issuing the following command:

    tsunami:/oasis/bin[39]> crontab -l

  4. The system should respond with

    5. # crontab to download OASIS mooring data every hour
    # April 25, 2000
    #
    0 8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17 * * * /oasis/bin/getmoor.test
    0 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,18,19,20,21,22,23 * * * /oasis/bin/getmoor
    # 0 * * * * /oasis/bin/getmoor
    45 23 * * * /oasis/bin/tarraw
    0 1 * * * /oasis/bin/process
    0 4 * * 1 /oasis/eqpac/bin/sendnoaa

    (or whatever your oasis.cron file looks like)

If you have any trouble, use man crontab to get info on the crontab utility.