[daip] failures at UVa aips

[Eric Greisen]

	Our sysadmin at UVa installed AIPS on a dept machine for a grad 
student here but it isn't working. I have not looked in great detail yet 
but there are two errors that they sent me from an attempted startup that 
I don't know what they mean. I included the attempted start up below. Do 
you know what might cause this? As far as I understand he installed it as 
root so I was wondering if that could be the reason for the DISK CODE 
error? Thanks,

p.s. I upgraded my AIPS on my machines and I really like some of the new 
improvements to AIPS!! Particularly I think the output to postscript for 
listr's etc that don't go to a file is great :)

It was there before but needed fixing...

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 15:10:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Howard Powell <hbp4c at Virginia.edu>
Reply-To: howard at virginia.edu
To: tc4g at Virginia.edu
Subject: aips errors

selana DA00 # aips

START_AIPS: You do not seem to be at a workstation (TERM=linux)


AIPS 1: ZOPEN: FILE TSTMEM:MED000000;        NOT FOUND

The above errors are sort of serious:

1. The environment variable $TERM is set to linux which is wierd 
   We expect one from

        sun*|*xterm*|*hpterm|dtterm|iris*|Eterm|screen

   otherwise we take the screen to be a dumb terminal incapable of X
   Windows.  Also variables like AIPS_MSG_EMULATOR are expected to be
   something reasonable like xterm (the default).

2. The installation probably stalled somewhere - hopefully after
   INSTEP4 finished.

   cd $AIPS_ROOT
   source LOGIN.CSH     (or . LOGIN.SH)
   $CDTST

   RUN FILAIP
   AMANAGER    is the password if requested, then answer
   35  -100
   6 2
   8

   RUN POPSGN
   0 POPSDAT TST
   <cr>

Cheers,

Eric Greisen