[daip] Re: AIPS Install problem

[Patrick P. Murphy]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:05:18 GMT, "James Seddon" <richkidjim at hotmail.com>
   said: 

> I have installed AIPS with your help (although the TEKSERV and MSSGSERV
> blatantly refuse to initiate!).

See 31DEC99/HELP/XAS.HLP and AIPS memo 99 for some background (latter is
on line at http://www.cv.nrao.edu/aips/TEXT/HTML/AIPSMEMO99.HTML, one of
the few HTML-ized memos).  You may want to do:

    aips tv=local

to force the use of Unix sockets.  Or if you need INET sockets
(e.g. because you have multiple AIPS systems, have simultaneous AIPS
sessions going on them, and want local *and* remote sessions to talk to
the same "TV" or image display), then make sure you have the services
defined in /etc/services or your YP/NIS services map, whichever is in use: 

sssin		5000/tcp	SSSIN		# AIPS TV
ssslock		5002/tcp	SSSLOCK		# AIPS TV Lock
msgserv		5008/tcp	MSGSERV		# AIPS Message Server
tekserv		5009/tcp	TEKSERV		# AIPS TekServer
aipsmt0		5010/tcp	AIPSMT0
aipsmt1		5011/tcp	AIPSMT1
aipsmt2		5012/tcp	AIPSMT2
aipsmt3		5013/tcp	AIPSMT3
aipsmt4		5014/tcp	AIPSMT4
aipsmt5		5015/tcp	AIPSMT5
aipsmt6		5016/tcp	AIPSMT6
aipsmt7		5017/tcp	AIPSMT7

> I have two FITS files with raw data on, do these go in my DATA area or
> in a special FITS area?

Practical, useful answer: the easiest thing is to put them in the
$AIPS_ROOT/FITS/ directory.  Then when running FITLD you can set INFILE to
the filename.  

Pedantic answer: they can go anywhere, as long as you pre-define an
uppercase environment variable that points at the relevant directory.
Suppose you said "setenv SPOO /home/b5/londo/purple/" or the bash
equivalent "export SPOO=/home/b5/londo/purple/".  Now you can reference a
file therein, say GKAR.FITS, as

     > infile = "SPOO:GKAR.FITS"

from within AIPS.

Two caveats in both cases:

   1) the environment variable has to be uppercase and *defined before you
      start AIPS*.
   2) the filenames need to be uppercase too.

> Also, when I load AIPS I am asked for a user id

That's the VLA AIPS User number.  See 31DEC99/DOC/TEXT/USERNO.LIS.  Only
user #1 has a default password (AMANAGER) and you don't want to use that
number for routine data processing (for a variety of reasons).

If you never intend on using, or collaborating with someone who has used,
the VLA or VLBA, just pick a number greater than 20.  Otherwise, I'd use a
currently unused number like 28 or 29.

				- Pat
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  Patrick P. Murphy, Ph.D.            Division Head, Charlottesville Computing
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