[daip] Re: AIPS 31DEC03 with patches problem (Mac OS X 10.3)

[Eric Greisen]

Marc Audard writes:

 > I suddenly run into an unexpected problem when trying to erase CL table 
 > 2 in AIPS. While it used to work fine, now I get the following message:
 > 
 > AIPS 1: ZDESTR: ERROR DESTROYING FILE DA01:CLD001002.07R;      IERR= 4
 > AIPS 1: ZERROR: ON FILE DA01:CLD001002.07R;
 > AIPS 1: ZERROR: IN ZDEST2 ERRNO = 22 (Invalid argument)
 > AIPS 1: EXTENSION FILE TYPE CL VERSION   2 DELETE ERROR     4
 > 
 > The file CLD001002.07R; does exist but it is located in the LOCALHOST_1 
 > directory in DATA. There is no such directory as DA01.

           DA01 is an environment variable pointing as LOCALHOST_1
which is set up as aips starts.

      My guess is that the current user does not have privilege to
write and therefore to delete these files.  In your current login
do

whoami
groups
ls -l <path>/CLD001002.07R;      where <path> points at the data
                                 area.
 
Eric Greisen

 > 
 > We tried with a SN table and the same problem arises.
 > 
 > Finally, we tried 2 tricks: create a soft link on ~/aips called DA01 
 > pointing to the directory ~/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1, and to define an 
 > environment (setenv DA01 ~/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1), but both failed.
 > 
 > Do you have any idea how to fix this problem? We cannot go further 
 > calibrating.
 > 
 > Thanks a lot,
 > 
 > 				Marc
 > 
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