<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi Adam,<br><br></div>Yes I think it is in my path, I also checked the executables in /bin/ and 'genmachines.py' is also there.<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Sam<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Adam Deller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeller@astro.swin.edu.au" target="_blank">adeller@astro.swin.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Sam,<div><br></div><div>As I said, run startdifx with the -n switch if you've already made the machines and threads file. So in this case, startdifx -n example_1.input. That bypasses genmachines.</div><div><br></div><div>But in any case, genmachines should have been installed into $DIFXROOT/bin/ the same as all the rest of the DiFX executables. Is that directory in your path?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br>Adam</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 March 2017 at 18:10, Hagatiana Andrianomena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:handrianomena@ska.ac.za" target="_blank">handrianomena@ska.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Adam,<br><br></div>Many thanks for your reply. I did run 'startdifx example_1.input' and came out with:<br><br></div>/bin/sh: 1: genmachines: not found<br>/bin/sh: 1: genmachines: not found<br>/bin/sh: 1: genmachines: not found<br>.....<br><br></div>Perhaps there is something which is not configured properly in my case during installation?<br><br></div>Cheers,<br></div>Sam<br></div><div class="m_-724915698964760205HOEnZb"><div class="m_-724915698964760205h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Adam Deller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adeller@astro.swin.edu.au" target="_blank">adeller@astro.swin.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Sam,<div><br></div><div>if you run startdifx it will by default regenerate the .machines and .threads files using genmachines. If you've already made those by hand and don't want that to happen, then you need to run startdifx -n (the -n means don't re-run genmachines). That should get you started.</div><div><br></div><div>For getting things going properly, <a href="http://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/difx/difxuserguide.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.atnf.csiro.au/vlbi/<wbr>dokuwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php/dif<wbr>x/difxuserguide.pdf</a> has lots of information on how to get genmachines working (basically, you need to populate a cluster description file and point the environment variable $DIFX_MACHINES at it).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Adam</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-724915698964760205m_-6814764253578326706h5">On 18 March 2017 at 01:49, Hagatiana Andrianomena <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:handrianomena@ska.ac.za" target="_blank">handrianomena@ska.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-724915698964760205m_-6814764253578326706h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi </span><span class="m_-724915698964760205m_-6814764253578326706m_5652989312001818827m_-2434007179614062432gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">DIFX</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">-</span><span class="m_-724915698964760205m_-6814764253578326706m_5652989312001818827m_-2434007179614062432gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">Users</span><br><div><span class="m_-724915698964760205m_-6814764253578326706m_5652989312001818827m_-2434007179614062432gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span class="m_-724915698964760205m_-6814764253578326706m_5652989312001818827m_-2434007179614062432gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">It is the first time I am using the software and started to learn by doing some tests using <span style="font-size:12.8px">the example data </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">"rdv70.tar" </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">from the wiki page. I am using DIFX-trunk. I just followed </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">the instructions of the readme file in the tarball. Everything went OK up to step 3 where:</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">- when running startdifx (as per the readme file) it complained about not finding genmachine</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- then I tried to run "genmachine.py" but it also complained about the format of the "machinefile" <span style="font-size:12.8px">it needs. we struggled to get the right format, although I just followed the example from the wiki, so</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- edited the .machines and .threads by just modifying the ones from the example data.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- when running startdifx, it does not complain but it looks like it takes long time without doing anything so I had <span style="font-size:12.8px">to stop it.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- when I checked the generated files, we found that .machines and .threads files were no longer there.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I would appreciate if you could please help me.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Sam</div><div><br></div></span></div></div>
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