[daip] Data Areas in AIPS

[Maritza Tavarez]

Hi,

	Thanks for your quick reply.  I fixed this problem on my own
yesterday, by changing the '-' to a '+' in the DADEVS.LIST.  I then
restarted the install script and it worked fine...

Cheers,
Maritza

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Maritza Tavarez writes:
> 
>  > 	I am having trouble defining the data areas when installing AIPS
>  > 31DEC02 version.  I have entered the following in screen 7 of the install
>  > wizard:
>  > 
>  > /home/aips/DATA_1
>  > /u3/aips/DATA_2
>  > /m6/aips/DATA_3
>  > 
>  > As a space separated list.  Everything compiles correctly, but it cannot
>  > find the data areas.  These directories are listed in the DADEVS.LIST and
>  > NETSP files, yet when installing nothing appears.
>  > 
>  > I've even tried doing the symbolic links thing based on what it suggested
>  > 
>  > /home/aips/DATA_1:/usr/local/AIPS/AIPS/DATA/MARITZALT_1 etc...
>  > 
>  > But it doesn't work either.  I then created the symbolic links and added 
>  > the lines to the DADEVS file and ran the install script again.  This time
>  > it found the directories but said they were unavailable.  
>  > 
>  > Any ideas on what else I can try? 
>  > 
> 
>       I am not entirely clear what is going on here.  The data areas
> need either to be "required" - a + sign in column 1 of DADEVS.LIST -
> or they must have in their name the name of the host so that the
> startup procs can recognize which data areas go with which host.  I do
> not recommend Required data areas in the case where there is more than
> one host since usage of data areas with NFS on another computer is
> very slow.  The data areas must contain a file called SPACE which you
> can create with a simple "touch SPACE" command - the file must be rw
> privilege to anyone using the data area.  The DADEVS.LIST and NETSP
> list should contain the directory names that contain the host name so
> that the startup proc can select them - and DADEVS and NETSP should be
> consistent.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> Eric Greisen
>