[daip] setting up remote tape drive

[Emily Xanthopoulos]

Hello,

maybe you can help me with this:

I have a linux machine with RedHat9 and I very smoothly installed the 
newest version 31dec04 of aips. However, I need to use a remote tape drive 
to read my data for DDS-1 DAT tapes from inside aips.

I followed the steps that you give in the AIPS Managers' Questions section 
but still can not make a connection. I will describe exactly what I did 
following your instructions and maybe you can tell me where I go wrong.


My machine is "floria" and I have aips root as: /home/exanthop/aips
The remore machince is a SPARC5 with Solaris 2.6 and its name "blackfoot".

I follow the numbering in your steps in the webpage:

1. I logon (ssh) to Blackfoot so I have the root area /home/exanthop/aips
2. I make an entry from floria to the HOSTS.LIST file for Blackfoot puting
"+ Blackfoot SUN' as a new line
3. I create in floria in /home/exanthop/aips/DA00 a directory called 
BLACKFOOT. Then I copy in it all the files from my 
/home/exanthop/aips/DA00/FLORIA (Question: can that be a mistake since 
FLORIA is LINUX or am I OK?)
4. Now this step I am not sure:

It says create 31Dec04/SOL/LOAD (I am not sure about the SOL) and put in 
the appropriate version of TPMON.EXE (I could not find that from the aips 
ftp site and it has to be the appropriate for SPARC5 and for the 31dec04 
version -> so I copied the one that I had from Linux from 
/aips/31DEC04/LINUX/LOAD (my directory). And where do I actually create 
this directory (I did it in floria in the aips/31DEC04 directory that I 
had).

Where do I create then:

cd 31DEC04/SOL/LOAD 
ln TPMON.EXE TPMON1
ln TPMON.EXE TPMON2


links? (I mean in which file?)  - (I actually put them in the LOGIN.CSH 
file but I am not sure that that is correct and I keep getting that the 
two links are already there).

Then in Blackfoot I run: source LOGIN.CSH
and in floria: source LOGIN.SH

and when I run: START_TPSERVERS -d in floria it says:

STARTPMON: [FLORIA] verbose comments enabled
STARTPMON: [FLORIA] need 1 daemons...
STARTPMON: [FLORIA] 1 daemons alive
STARTPMON: [FLORIA] LINUX/TPMON1 is a valid link to TPMON.EXE
STARTPMON: [FLORIA] TPMON1 is already running

But still when I go  into aips and try to mount the tape that I have in 
the remote tape drive it gives me the error message:

ZVTPO2 connect (INET): Connection refused
AIPS 1: ZMOUNR: UNABLE TO OPEN SOCKET TO REMOTE MACHINE, ERROR    1
AIPS 1: ZMOUNT: ERROR     1 RETURNED BY ZMOUN2/ZMOUNR
AIPS 1: TAPE PROBLEM

(and the tape is definitely OK).


Note: also when I tried to run START_TPSERVERS in Blackfoot it gives a 
fatal error and kills everything.



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Thanks in advance for your time.

Emily








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Dr. Emily Xanthopoulos
Larwrence Livermore National Laboratory
Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics L-413
7000 East Ave., Livermore, CA 94550-9234

E-mail: exanthop at igpp.ucllnl.org
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