[daip] installing aips

[Pedro Montero Muriel]

Thanks for you email. Finally it does work on the local machine though I
can't open from a remote machine. How do I do that?

This is the message I get:


TVDEVS.SH: Starting TV servers on sextans asynchronously
TVDEVS.SH:  - WITH Unix Sockets as requested...
TVDEVS.SH: Starting TPMON daemons on SEXTANS asynchronously...
Starting up 31DEC02 AIPS with normal priority
Begin the one true AIPS number 2 (release of 31DEC02) at priority =   0
AIPS 2: You are not on a local TV device, welcome stranger
AIPS 2: You are assigned TV device/server   3
AIPS 2: You are assigned graphics device/server   3
AIPS 2: Enter user ID number
?UNIXSERVERS: TVSRV2 is already running on host sextans, user tinti
UNIXSERVERS: Start XAS2 on sextans, DISPLAY sextans.ap.sissa.it:11.0
X connection to sextans.ap.sissa.it:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
UNIXSERVERS: Start graphics server TKSRV2 on sextans, display
sextans.ap.sissa.it:11.0
X connection to sextans.ap.sissa.it:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).
STARTPMON: [SEXTANS] The FITS area (/home/aips/FITS) is not a directory!
STARTPMON: [SEXTANS] This area is needed by TPMON1 (for FITS disk access)
STARTPMON: [SEXTANS] Will NOT start any TPMON daemons.
UNIXSERVERS: Start message server MSSRV2 on sextans, display
sextans.ap.sissa.it:11.0
X connection to sextans.ap.sissa.it:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).


Thanks.
Pedro


On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Patrick P Murphy wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:26:44 +0200 (CEST), Pedro Montero Muriel
>    <montero at sissa.it> said:
>
> > Thanks for you reply. I tried that and solved and I think I solved the
> > problems when RUN FILAIP. I get this message:
>
> > FILAI1: ZCREAT: FILE DA00:BAD001009; ALREADY EXISTS
>
> This is probably fine; ignore these "already exists" messages.
>
> > FILAI1: Init POPS memory files 1 through 12 with program POPSGN
> > FILAI1: Done!
>
> So far so good.
>
> > But when I type aips,
>
> Did you run the POPSGN program?  That program initializes the memory (ME)
> files, and needs to be done before running AIPS.  See my "PS:" below for
> details.  However, you haven't yet run into such problems as your problem
> is more immediate:
>
> > I still get this error, which I don't know to what it refers since there
> > is no such a DA01 directory:
>
> There is no directory called "DA01" literally.
>
> DA01 is an environment variable.  AIPS is using a vms-like syntax here of
> the form "logical:filename.ext;" where "logical" is an environment
> variable.  The aips shell script that starts AIPS up defines DA01 and
> a LARGE number of other variables for AIPS internal use.  It does tell
> you that, e,g, "disk 1 is /whatever...".
>
> >  ZMSGER: ON FILE DA01:MSD001000.001;
> >  ZMSGER: IN ZDAOPN ERRNO = 13 (Permission denied)
>
> Let's assume "disk 1" turns out to be /DATA/ORANGUTAN_1 (that's what it is
> on my system).  Here is what I would do to investigate this issue:
>
>      bash$ cd /DATA/ORANGUTAN_1
>      bash$ ls -l MSD*
>
> This would likely show me that I did not have write access to the file or
> files.
>
> You need to find out from the startup messages AIPS gives you what
> directory corresponds to "disk 1" (it can be different things depending on
> your setup; it's usually but not always the same directory).  And you need
> to ensure that you have correct UNIX permissions to read and write files
> in that area.  If you do not know how to use the Unix "chmod" program to
> do this, please contact your local systems administrator.
>
> 				- Pat
>
> PS: To run POPSGN, you do this from the Unix command line (after making
>     sure LOGIN.SH or LOGIN.CSH has been called):
>
>  --> bash$ RUN POPSGN
>      Data disk assignments:
>         Disk 1 (1) is /DATA/ORANGUTAN_1
>
>      Starting up POPSGN (RELEASE OF 31DEC02)
>      Enter Idebug, Mname, Version (1 I, 2 A's) (NO COMMAS)
>  --> 0 POPSDAT TST
>  --> >
>
>      POPSG1: Popsgen complete
>      POPSG1: orangutan    31DEC02 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=      73
>      bash$
>
> Here "bash$ " just shows the typical shell prompt.  "-->" shows what you
> need to type.  Make sure you enter the "0 POPSDAT TST" exactly and
> literally (uppercase).  Also, when you see the prompt ">" on the next line
> from POPSGN, just press ENTER.
>

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