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- A job at Beijing is required to do the anonymous ftp of the recent data from the Beijing MA to the incoming FTP server at SLAC.
- The data then needs to be copied (by proxy.pl which takes a couple of seconds to run) from the anonymous FTP incoming space (/afs/slac/public/incoming/) to a directory accessible (see above) for reading from the ping_data.pl web CGI script that is called by wget from getdata.pl.
getdata.pl is then scheduled to run at SLAC to copy the selected data from the accessible directory /nfs/slac/g/net/pinger/pingerdata/hep/data/proxy/2001:da8:270:2018:f816:3eff:fef3:bd3/ to Getdata.pl runs at 32 minutes past midnight local time at SLAC each morning.
Code Block - We want to standardize the time of the various cronjobs. One 1:00am SLAC summer localtime is 4:01pm in China, and 12:00 midnight SLAC standard (winter) localtime is also 4:01pm in China.
The various jobs have to be synchronized:
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