[daip] AIPS HELP

[Patrick P Murphy]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:49:17 -0600 (MDT), "Lorant Sjouwerman, NRAO"
   <lsjouwer at aoc.nrao.edu> said: 

> #ZSSSL2 connect (INET): No route to host
> #AIPS 1: ZSSSLK: ERROR   1 ON LOCK
> #AIPS 1: ON LOCK ERROR    6 FROM ZSSSLK
> #AIPS 1: YTVOPN: TV LOCK OPEN ERROR      6
> #AIPS 1: TV OPEN ERROR      6
> #

> To me this sounds like the proper entries in /etc/services are missing

That's quite likely, and making sure the entries are there is a good
idea.  However there is an alternative:

        aips tv=local

will start up an AIPS session using Unix sockets for the TV server, tek
server, and message server, as well as the (TVSERV) tv lock daemon.

> #ZDCHI1: ZOPEN: FILE DA00:SPD000000;          NOT FOUND

This is serious; without the system parameter (SP) file, AIPS just won't
work.  "DA00" translates to $AIPS_ROOT/DA00/$HOST/ and should be a
directory with a bunch of AIPS system files.  As Lorant said,

> Another possibility is that you have added a new host to an existing
> system without running SYSETUP (again, see the INSTALL.PS document).

Yes.  SYSETUP is what's needed to add another host (though you need to
edit HOSTS.LIST in the $AIPS_ROOT area first, and put a copy of the 30 or
so DA00/* files in a TEMPLATE area; install.pl normally does this for you,
I think).

I'm not in the AIPS group anymore, but I still peek in from time to time,
and this was a fairly straightforward issue.  Or at least I hope it is.

				- Pat
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