# No Intermediate Log File for Temporal Allocation

**URL:** <https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849>\
**Category:** SMOKE\
**Created:** [June 9, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849 "2025-06-09T15:26:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![mahsasoleimani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@mahsasoleimani](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/mahsasoleimani)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/1 "2025-06-09T15:26:28Z")

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Hi everyone,

I’m running SMOKE v4.8.1 for the _othar_ sector using 2019 inventory data. The `smkinven`, `spcmat`, and `grdmat` show Normal Completion of program and generate log files in `intermed/`, but the **temporal allocation** step does not produce any intermediate log files. Why SMOKE skips this step and what should I do in order for SMOKE to run `temporal` for this sector?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![mahsasoleimani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@mahsasoleimani](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/mahsasoleimani)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/2 "2025-06-09T15:34:13Z")

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Here’s a screenshot of my `intermed/logs/` directory showing only the three stages completed.  
 ![SMOKE](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/cmas/original/2X/4/4c8bef279a17a14f516e3d0af3f83264bac617f7.png)

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**Author:** ![james.beidler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6f9a4e/32.png) [@james.beidler](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/james.beidler)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/3 "2025-06-09T16:57:23Z")

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Based on the information provided it is difficult to determine the cause of the issue.  
Can you please share your run script, the run\_settings.txt file, and a log of the run script output?

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**Author:** ![mahsasoleimani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@mahsasoleimani](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/mahsasoleimani)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/4 "2025-06-09T17:11:08Z")

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Thank you.  
Sure. Please find attached the files.  
[Monthly\_othar\_12US1\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k\_orig\_2.csh](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/tIgvXCzk8YsyX7wO7myCfLNX0eT.csh) (7.6 KB)  
[run\_settings.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/eTAzS3rDbPide6F6JLb5fiyGrBm.txt) (1.1 KB)  
[spcmat\_othar\_jan\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k\_cmaq\_cb6ae7.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/hh5PhQHBttcXj9nTxoamXWvChvx.txt) (10.0 MB)  
[grdmat\_othar\_jan\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k\_12US1.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/ktSKpSGC919i9CCtsLitO5Ne5pg.txt) (434.8 KB)  
[smkinven\_othar\_jan\_2019ge\_cb6\_19k.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/m88AkVjA5wTBGVs9mDpSGYiTB8X.txt) (30.1 KB)

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**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/5 "2025-06-09T19:19:07Z")

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Thank you for sending these files. However, to diagnose this, we really need to see the standard output file – basically what is printed to the screen if you were to run the job interactively.

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**Author:** ![mahsasoleimani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@mahsasoleimani](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/mahsasoleimani)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/6 "2025-06-09T19:49:13Z")

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Thank you for the guidance.

I’ve now captured the standard output.  
[stdout\_run.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/8dxSikAiJSCYfv6MbswtHo5cpkP.txt) (19.1 KB)  
Could you please advise me why the temporal and smkmerge steps are not being executed, or if any additional information would be helpful.

Thanks so much again for your support.

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**Author:** ![mahsasoleimani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@mahsasoleimani](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/mahsasoleimani)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/7 "2025-06-10T15:22:57Z")

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After some debugging to understand why Temporal and Merge programs are not running, the problem seems to be in $RUNSCRIPTS/emf/smk\_ar\_monthly\_emf.csh. In this script, I commented out some lines for QA\_TYPE inv2a, QA\_TYPE inv2b, QA\_TYPE inv3, QA\_TYPE inv3b, QA\_TYPE inv2c (attached the file  
[smk\_ar\_monthly\_emf.csh.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/mlvQP1KtnZQWiZl7rJkg0ZX7NhG.txt) (47.1 KB)  
) and now I have outputs (ran Temporal and Merge) for jan and feb. Now, there is another error attached as  
[stdout\_run\_2.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/4igtG8RJGlCiWK2VcWF5s6OVeJM.txt) (128.4 KB). Can you please help me how to resolve that? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![eyth.alison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@eyth.alison](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/eyth.alison)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/no-intermediate-log-file-for-temporal-allocation/5849/8 "2025-06-10T19:58:12Z")

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This is a timetracker-related issue that was addressed in later platforms. In your $INSTALL\_DIR/smoke4.8.1/scripts/run/ directory, you should replace timetracker\_v2.csh with the update pasted below and attached here.

```auto
#!/bin/tcsh -f

# Script to put date/time information about SMOKE to a file

# If file already exists, it will look for entries in the file

# that are already present, and overwrite those lines with

# the new data.

# Arguments:

# Intialize file?

# Output file name

# Start date/time

# Program

# Processing date

# Output format: CSV file

# Output columns:

# Run type

# Job Name (if applicable)

# Case abbrev

# Sector

# Program

# Processing date

# Start date

# Start time

# End date

# End time

# Get end time (want to do this immediately).

set enddt = `date +%m/%d/%Y,%T`

# parse out script arguments

switch ( $#argv )

case 2:

set initialize = $argv[1]

set outfile = $argv[2]

breaksw

case 5:

set initialize = $argv[1]

set outfile = $argv[2]

set startdt = $argv[3]

set program = $argv[4]

set procdate = $argv[5]

breaksw

default

echo "SCRIPT ERROR: Incorrect number of arguments for timetracker.csh"

echo " The correct sytax for calling that script is:"

echo " "

echo " timetracker.csh <initialize?> <outfile> <start date/time> <program> <processing date>"

echo " "

echo " If <initialize?> = Y, the the first two arguments are expected.

echo " Otherwise, all five arguments are expected.

exit ( 1 )

breaksw

endsw

# If

# If setting for intializing timelog file is set, then...

if ( $initialize == Y ) then

# Whether the time tracking log is overwritten depends on whether

# the AUTO_DELETE_LOG option is set in the main script.

# If the timelog file exists, then...

if ( -e $TIMELOG ) then

# If autodelete feature is turned on, try to delete log file

if ( $AUTO_DELETE_LOG == Y ) then

echo "SCRIPT NOTE: Deleting existing time log file:"

echo " $TIMELOG"

echo " Since file exists and AUTO_DELETE_LOG = Y"

/bin/rm -rf $TIMELOG

if ( $status == 1 ) then

echo "SCRIPT ERROR: Could not delete time log prior to writing it"

exit ( 1 )

endif

# If autodelete feature is not turned on...

else

# Try to delete log with using the prompt.

echo "Delete existing time log file? If no, script will end."

/bin/rm -i $TIMELOG

# If the file still exists, then exit with an error

if ( -e $TIMELOG ) then

echo "SCRIPT ERROR: Time log needs to be removed prior to rerunning"

echo " this script!"

exit ( 1 )

endif

endif

endif

# If haven't yet exited, then initialize timelog file with the header row

echo RUN_TYPE, JOB_NAME, CASE, SECTOR, PROGRAM, PROCDATE, BEGDATE, BEGTIME, ENDDATE, ENDTIME > $outfile

# If not initializing file, then writing out timing info...

else

if ( $#argv != 5 ) then

echo "SCRIPT ERROR: timetracker.csh run with Initialize? = N, but without 5 arguments"

exit ( 1 )

endif

# Separate date and times into separate variables for output

set startdate = `echo $startdt | cut -d, -f1`

set starttime = `echo $startdt | cut -d, -f2`

set enddate = `echo $enddt | cut -d, -f1`

set endtime = `echo $enddt | cut -d, -f2`

# Reformat processing date into mm/dd/yyyy

if ( $procdate != inv ) then

set dd = `echo $procdate | cut -c7-8`

set mm = `echo $procdate | cut -c5-6`

set yyyy = `echo $procdate | cut -c1-4`

set procdate = $mm/$dd/$yyyy

endif

# Check to see if there is already a line present with the primary keys

# for this dataset, and set internal flag accordingly.

# Added a cut to the beginning to only get the first six fields as the

# last four are not relevant to this check and can produce false positives

# when running timetracker for the same procdate as the current real date.

# Changed on 5/17/2010 - bte

# Changed line 133 to use # of words in row rather than status for verification. Reduces false positives. 3/21/2013 - bte

set nrow = `cut -d',' -f1-6 "$TIMELOG" | /bin/grep -n "$SECTOR" | grep "$EMF_JOBNAME" | grep ", $program," | grep "$procdate" | cut -d":" -f1`

echo $nrow

# If grep found a matching line, then delete it

if ( $#nrow != 0 ) then

# If just one entry in nrow, then delete the line

if ( $#nrow == 1 ) then

sed "${nrow}d" $TIMELOG > $TIMELOG.tmp

mv -f $TIMELOG.tmp $TIMELOG

echo "SCRIPT NOTE: timetracker is replacing line $nrow of the TIMELOG file"

# Otherwise, given an error and abort with failure

else

echo "SCRIPT ERROR: timetracker script found multiple existing entries"

echo " for the following primary keys in the file already:"

echo " Sector = $SECTOR"

echo " Job Name = $EMF_JOBNAME"

echo " Program = $program"

echo " Run Date = $procdate"

echo " This should not happen, so script does not know how to"

echo " replace the entries for these keys"

exit ( 1 )

endif

endif

# Create string for this line of data and store it

# If running this from the EMF, then include that information on each line.

# Otherwise, indicated that it's interactive

if ( $?EMF_JOBID ) then

echo EMF, \"$EMF_JOBNAME\", \"$CASE\", \"$SECTOR\", $program, $procdate, \

$startdate, $starttime, $enddate, $endtime >> $outfile

else

echo "interactive, n/a," $CASE, $SECTOR, $program, $procdate, \

$startdate, $starttime, $enddate, $endtime >> $outfile

endif

endif

exit ( 0 )

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[timetracker_v2.csh.txt|attachment](upload://jZdKBDNSICegiXayIK50HSpVmkl.txt) (5.61 KB)

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