[daip] Re: aips help

[Emily Xanthopoulos]

Great thank you Eric! it worked!

I had to clean up all the files that you mentioned below from the /tmp
directory, I did not know there was a limit of 36. 
And you are also right about killing the TV and the other message/TEK
screens, because I use exit but those were not diying with aips and had to
kill them manually. But now I used kleenex and it worked fine.

Thanks again for the help and the really fast reply.

Emily

On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Emily Xanthopoulos writes:
> 
>  > maybe you can help me with this. After a lot of months working OK with
>  > aips, I am suddenly getting the message when I start aips:
>  > 'TVDEVS.SH: No free socket slots left!' and gets out of aips.
>  > What can  I do to free socket slots for TV display. Why did I not have
>  > that problem for so long and suddenly appeared now?
>  > 
> Sorry - I gave you an answer worth checking but this is a message from
> aips itself.  Go look in /tmp.  I think you will find a bunch of files
> named XAS.n and/or LOK.n and/or TKS.n and/or MSS.n which are used as
> unix sockets for "local" aips TVs.  In some way these are remianing
> active instead of disappearing as they should and you have no more
> available (1-36 are all that we allow).  If no aips's are running
> simply delete all such files - but ask yourself how are you ending
> your aips sessions.  Use kleenex rather than exit to shut down the
> servers properly.
> 
> Eric Greisen
> 
>