[daip] AIPS on MAC OSX

[Dr. Sylvie F. Beaulieu]

Quebec, 30.March.2006

Hello,

I just installed AIPS on a MAC OSX (Darwin version). The machine
is a "stand-alone" so I do not have to worry about multiple users
and a tapedrive.

Usually, on a Linux system (also "stand-alone") I install AIPS in
"root". Pat once told me that it is good practice to install AIPS
in a separate account like "aipsman" or "aipsmgr". So, for this
MAC, I did that.

On this machine there is three users: joncas, admin and aipsman.
When I start aips as the "user=joncas", all seems to start ok 
(with the three windows TVSERVER, MSGSRV and TEKSRV) but I get 
and error:

"FAILED to remove /Users/aipsman/AIPS/31DEC06/MACPPC/LOAD/TPMON1"

but aips starts anyway and I was able to read a disk file with 
FILLM.

But then, I noticed that the messages that FILLM produces when 
processing the file is dumped in the aips window, and not in the 
AIPS MSGSRV window, as it should be. 

I cannot find a way to create an "aipsman" group. I was told that 
on a MAC, the file /etc/group is different than the one on a 
Linux/Unix system e.g. when I looked at that file to see if I 
could add my user "joncas" as a group member of aispman", there 
was no entry either for "joncas" "admin" or "aispman". Maybe the 
problem lies there i.e. the system is unable to relate joncas 
and aipsman as group members.

So, is there a solution to these two problems? maybe there is 
something missing in my installation.

Best regards,

-Sylvie.


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