[daip] Activating MNJ

[Eric Greisen]

Hugh D. Aller writes:
 > Dear AIPS group,
 >       I last updated our AIPS installation (on our LINUX machines) in June 
 > 2003 (a full install of 31DEC03 as of June 1, 2003).  You guys have made a 
 > number of improvements since then, and we are very interested in getting 
 > some of them.  I assume that the easiest way for all concerned is to 
 > activate the midnight job update system.  If there are any reasons that it 
 > would be better to do a complete upgrade, please tell us and I will down 
 > load a current tar ball and do a reinstall.
 >      I have set up the MNJ code (using MAKE.MNJ) to the point where I am 
 > ready to add a task to cron.  At the end of the make file it asks that I 
 > contact NRAO for a transfer time to enter in the cron script.  What time 
 > would be best for us to use?

The MNJ can be run to update 31DEC03 to that date - we are now well
into 31DEC04.  You should just run the MNJ by hand since it will work
only once.  After that it will complain that nothing is changing which
is true of 31DEC03.

A full install of the 31DEC04 is necessary to be completely current.
A MNJ on a cron is good for that version.  It is no longer of any use
to ask us for a time - cvs is non-intrusive and we expect no conflicts
even if lots of people use the same time.  We update the tar-ball/cvs
site around 10:00 - 10:15 pm Mountain time

Eric Greisen