[daip] message server problems

[Eric Greisen]

Andy Biggs writes:
 > Hi there. I've written before about problems with the message and tek 
 > servers in my installations of aips. I've just got a new Linux workstation 
 > and the same problem occurs with the aips installation (binary) that I've 
 > just downloaded. The good thing compared to the past is that I can now see 
 > the error that is reported in the MSGSRV window (before it dies). It is:
 > 
 > /harport/adb/aips/31DEC05/LINUX/LOAD/MSGSRV.EXE: error while loading 
 > shared libraries: libsvml.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
 > or directory
 > 
 > If I run ldd on MSGSRV.EXE it reports no problems and finds libsvml.so. Is 
 > there any way to fix this?
 > 
 > My computer is a dual-processor AMD Opteron 248 running Debian 3.1.

If your .cshrc file or whatever that is accessed when you start xterms
contains 

setenv $AIPS_ROOT wherever
source $AIPS_ROOT/LOGIN.CSH

or sutibale bash version, then each xterm will have the special
LD_LIBRARY_PATH set needed to get the message server to work.

Eric Greisen