[daip] Fedora Core 5 and AIPS 31DEC06

[Eric Greisen]

SUSAN BILL WIDER writes:
 > Hi.
 > 
 >    I installed Fedora Core 5 some time back and installed a fresh version of AIPS yesterday.  Everything looks fine except that ZSSSL2 finds an unknown host so I can't address the TV.  Similarly, TKPL can't find the host/service by name (error 3).  I also note that the AIPS_MSGSRV window doesn't have the true hostname ("blackhole") in the left-hand column i.e. I get
 > 
 >      hostna> task #: Message 
 > 
 > Looks like the hostname has got lost somewhere.  Yet 

    The function gethostbyaddr is failing to convert your Ip address
into the string blackhole.  This suggests that your name server is not
functioning to provides names for IP addresses.

 > 
 >    HOSTNAME=blackhole
 > 
 > and
 > 
 >    HOST= BLACKHOLE
 > 
 > which seems to be correct.
 > 
 >    So ... just in case this is a known issue with a ready solution, I thought I'd ask what the answer is before I start digging.
 > 
 >    One other thing ... the discussion about compilers for AIPS on the AIPS web pages seems to be rooted in about year 2000.  Most of us aren't running RH7.0 any longer and haven't been for a while.  Perhaps that discussion needs to be updated to reflect the use of Fedora Core versions.
 > 

Why are you interested in compilers?  The binary versions of AIPS run
faster on Linux and Mac by quite a bit.  Only if you develop your own
code for AIPS do you need local compilers.

Eric Greisen