End of night tasks

Post observing report

Update MOPDB

Exit MOP

New file copying procedures as of October 2002

Douglas Tucker needs the mdReport file copied on a nightly basis to the appropriate /data/mt/<MJD> directory. Previously, this was done as part of writing to tape, but we no longer write tapes each day. For this reason we have two new scripts for your convenience, one of which must be run each night:

1) The endnight script: This script copies log and report files to /data/mt/<MJD>, then copies the cloud camera images to /data/mt/ <MJD>/irsc and removes observer's semaphores. To run this script you MUST be logged in as observer.

from sdssmth:
sdssmth% endnight -mjd <MJD>

2) The copyparfiles script: This script just copies log and report files to /data/mt/<MJD>. If you run this script, you must retrieve the cloud camera images and remove semaphores following the links below.

from sdssmth:
sdssmth% copyparfiles -mjd <MJD>

Retrieve cloud camera images

Clean (remove) Semaphores from sdssmth

The procedure for writing data to tape is unchanged.

Copy data to tape

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