[daip] Installation problem (fwd)

[Lorant Sjouwerman, NRAO]

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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:44:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Whysong <dwhysong at physics.ucsb.edu>
To: "Lorant Sjouwerman, NRAO" <lsjouwer at zia.aoc.NRAO.EDU>
Subject: Re: [daip] Installation problem


Thanks! I got it working. The problem was that the $AIPS_HOME/DATA
driectory was never created; I don't know why...

Dave


On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Lorant Sjouwerman, NRAO wrote:

>Ha David,
>
>I'm filling in for Eric who's on vacation.
>
>#
>#I'm trying to install AIPS on a Linux/Red Hat 9 box. The install fails
>#because it fails to finda any data areas. In the install.pl perl script, I
>#specified a single data area, /mnt/data/aips which is not a subdirectory
>#of the aips account. The directory does exist, and should have the proper
>#permissions and ownership:
>#
>#[dwhysong at sleepy ABMS-]$ ls -ld /mnt/data/aips
>#drwxrwsr-x    2 aips     aips         4096 Apr 21 00:53 /mnt/data/aips/
>#[dwhysong at sleepy ABMS-]$ ls -l /mnt/data/aips
>#total 0
>#-rw-rw-r--    1 aips     aips            0 Apr 21 00:53 SPACE
>
>This looks fine to me
>
>#
>#I tried installing with a symlink from the aips directory, like this:
>#	/mnt/data/aips:/usr/local/aips/DATA/SLEEPY_1
>#
>#The install.pl script reports my data area as:
>#  /mnt/data/aips (-> /usr/local/aips/DATA/SLEEPY_1)
>#
>#(Which appears backwards to me, as /usr/local/aips/DATA/SLEEPY_1 should be
>#the symlink, not the data driectory.)
>
>Yes, this looks backwards. Did you try to correct it and make the new area
>with eg 'cd /usr/local/aips/DATA; ln -s /mnt/data/aips SLEEPY_1'
>
>and then continue with the installation? (and make sure the full path to
>SLEEPY_1 is in DADEVS.LIST and NETSP in $AIPS_ROOT/DA00)
>
>Can you also check if you have a left over ~/.dadevs file (and remove it)
>
>Hope that helps
>
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Loránt Sjouwerman - VLBA Scientific Services - lsjouwerman at aoc.nrao.edu
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