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Error: the configuration file is not valid
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You can't launch your configuration, you have this error message **Error : the configuration file config_MENOR.cfg is not valid**

::

  service7>116% launch_MENOR config_MENOR.cfg -s 2008-01-01,12:00 -e 2008-01-03,12:00
  Configuration file used : config_MENOR.cfg
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "launch_MENOR", line 218, in main
      config = configobj.ConfigObj(cfgfile,unrepr=True,interpolation=True)
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/configobj.py", line 1219, in __init__
      self._load(infile, configspec)
    File "build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/configobj.py", line 1302, in _load
      raise error
  ConfigObjError: Parsing failed with several errors.
  First error at line 423.
  Error : the configuration file config_MENOR.cfg is not valid

Check that your boolean parameters in your configuration file are between quotes, for example **l_out_nc4par='.false.'**

::

    [[[paraspec]]]
      l_out_nc4par='.false.'
    [[[output]]]
      l_out_ubt = '.false.'