[daip] Re: [Fwd: [cchelp] Error in AIPS]

[Joshua, C.S. Chen]

Yes, the problem has now gone!?
Many thanks anyway.

Cheers
Joshua

Eric Greisen wrote:

>Joshua, C.S. Chen writes:
> > Hi Eric,
> >   My colleague encountered an AIPS problem, I just have no idea about 
> > it. Could you please take a look?
> > 
> > 
> > Today, when I was using AIPS, an error shows up, and I could not
> > see any files in AIPS.  Seems like some permission problem.
> > Here are the messages when I started AIPS.
> > 
> > ----------
> > AIPS 1: Enter user ID number
> > ?220
> > AIPS 1:                          31DEC04 AIPS:
> > AIPS 1:      Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Associated Universities, Inc.
> > AIPS 1:            AIPS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
> > AIPS 1:                 for details, type HELP GNUGPL
> > AIPS 1: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> > AIPS 1: under certain conditions; type EXPLAIN GNUGPL for details.
> > AIPS 1: Previous session command-line history recovered.
> > AIPS 1: TAB-key completions enabled, type HELP READLINE for details.
> > AIPS 1: Recovered POPS environment from last exit
> > >rm: cannot remove `/penguin/apps/aips/31DEC04/LINUX/LOAD/TPMON1':
> > Permission denied
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST] ***************************************************
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST] FAILED to remove
> > /penguin/apps/aips/31DEC04/LINUX/LOAD/TPMON1
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST]  - ask your friendly AIPS manager to do this, and
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST]    also to create a new hard link to TPMON1,
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST]    and to restart this TPMON daemon.  You cannot
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST]    restart TPMON1 for virtual drive for FITS disk
> > access
> > STARTPMON: [STARBURST] ***************************************************
> > ----------
> > 
> > Since I could not do data reduction, would you please fix this as soon
> > as possible?
> > 
>
>I cannot see here any error that would stop data reduction.
>
>Apparently the MNJ has recompiled TPMON and one may have to remake the
>link files in $LOAD.  This your AIPS Manager should do (see above
>messages for some guidance).  But this does not stop aips from working
>although it may stop the TPMONs from running and so no remote tape
>functions.
>
>Eric Greisen
>
>
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