[daip] diana, scorpion

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Jun 6 19:07:32 EDT 2006


Gustaaf van Moorsel writes:
 > I am running AIPS on a remote machine to which I am logged on using
 > ssh, e.g. 'ssh scorpion'.  The ssh is in a Linux terminal window
 > under Vmware.  For the data reduction tutorial at next week's imag-
 > ing school I have been assigned workstations scorpion and diana, in
 > room 200A and 200B.  I am running into two quite distinct problems
 > which I combine into this ticket.  They are both aips related so I
 > am including daip.
 > 
 > 1 - I start AIPS as 'aips pr=1 tv-local'.  This is necessary for the
 > required tv and tek servers to display on my screen, and works quite
 > well.  However, when I exit aips, and then attept to end the ssh by
 > entering another 'exit', the window hangs: control is not passed back
 > to the underlying Vmware shell.  Note that when I do not start aips
 > with 'tv=local' (meaning I don't get a tv screen window), I can exit
 > the ssh session fine.

      probably it hung waiting for started processes (TPMONs most
likely) to quit

 > 
 > 2 - Whereas running aips on scorpion works, aips on diana fails, with
 > the error message: ZOPEN: file DA00:PWD00000; not found.

A bad setup was found (bob used as the aips master machine)

Eric Greisen




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