[daip] Re: help

[Patrick P Murphy]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:28:07 +0530 (IST), Rajib Saha msc phy
   <rajib at iitk.ac.in> said: 

> I have installed 31DEC02  version of the "AIPS" in the LINUX machine
  ...
> rajib at monsoon:~/AIPS> aips tv=local
  ... (normal startup messages)
> AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> ?1

You probably know this, and it's a bit tangential, but user#1 is the
aips manager; it's best to use a larger number for routine user data
reduction and analysis.

> Here I have two screens: one is AIPS_TEKSRV_1
> another is AIPS_MSGSRV_1
> But I dont have any XAS TV window.

The AIPS XAS "TV" starts iconified.  Depending on your window manager
and/or desktop environment, you should be able to find it lurking as an
icon somewhere on the desktop, or (for gnome/kde) on the panel as a
running but minimized window.

One way of making sure it's actually running is to do this from the Unix
command line (not inside AIPS):

    ps auxww | grep XAS

which will show something like this:

pmurphy   2459  0.1  1.2 19268 9780 pts/0    T    09:31   0:00 ./XAS -display :0.0 -t X-AIPS tv Screen Server 98 - INET -n AIPS98-INET
pmurphy   2691  0.0  0.0  3692  564 pts/0    S    09:32   0:00 grep XAS

This shows two processes, one is my "grep" search, the other is XAS
itself.  This tells me that it's running.  And I have the small icon
visible on my screen (I run WindowMaker with icons enabled) that I can
(double) click on to show the TV window.

> 1)How can I remove this problem?

See above.

> 2)How many screens should I get while running AIPS?

Normally, there will be three windows in addition to the xterm (or
gnome-terminal or kde terminal) in which you typed "aips": the XAS image
display tool, an xterm running the Message server, and another xterm
running the graphical "tek" server.

> 3)Do I need to load the pathch files now.Or I should start running the
> "Installing wizard" once again so that this time Idont miss applying
> the patch files before running INSTEP2 and INSTEP4.?

See <http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/aips/31DEC02/patches.html>.  Follow these
instructions (downloading files and running commands like COMLNK as
instructed.  Make sure you type "$CDTST" before any compilations if you
haven't already.

				- Pat
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   Patrick P. Murphy, Ph.D.              Division Head, CV Computing, NRAO
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