[daip] Fwd: Remote use of AIPS

[Wes Young]

Try starting your AIPS tvserver up on your mac first, then running  
remotely from imager-b. If this works then it's a known problem that  
we're working on, if not then it's likely something else and we'll  
have to track it down.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu


On 26 Sep 2006, at 17:59, Jared Crossley wrote:

> I sent the following AIPS question to Eric Greisen, but Lorant
> suggested I send it to daip instead.
>
> My latest attempt, as suggested by Lorant, is described at the bottom.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Jared Crossley <jcrossle at nrao.edu>
>> Date: September 26, 2006 10:08:56 MDT
>> To: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
>> Subject: Remote use of AIPS
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Helpdesk has referred me to you.  I'm trying to run AIPS remotely on
>> imager-b.aoc.nrao.edu with a local TV on my Mac laptop, named jhc.
>>
>> I can start an AIPS session just fine on jhc; the TV opens and
>> everything.
>>
>> Then I ssh to imager-b.  I can open X-Windows apps on imager-b and
>> display them on jhc.  However, when I start AIPS on imager-b, I get
>> the following messages:
>> ----
>> START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called jhc
>> TVDEVS.SH: Remote TV assigned for TVHOST jhc  ***
>> START_AIPS: Checking if jhc is reachable via ssh...
>> START_AIPS: Cannot start remote TV servers on jhc, sorry!
>> START_AIPS: remote command gave this error:
>> ssh: jhc: Name or service not known
>> START_AIPS: check your secure shell setup, in particular
>> START_AIPS: whether you have a passphrase enabled.  You may
>> START_AIPS: wish to try 'ssh -v jhc pwd' to see
>> START_AIPS: what the problem is.
>> START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on IMAGER-B asynchronously...
>> Starting up 31DEC06 AIPS with normal priority
>> Begin the one true AIPS number 3 (release of 31DEC06) at priority  
>> =   0
>> AIPS 1: ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA01
>> AIPS 1: THIS MEANS THE TIMDEST LIMIT IS SET TO VALUE IN SP FILE OR  
>> 14.0
>> AIPS 3: You are not on a local TV device, welcome stranger
>> AIPS 3: You are assigned TV device/server  15
>> AIPS 3: You are assigned graphics device/server  15
>> ----
>> When I run 'ssh -v jhc pwd' from imager-b, I get:
>> ----
>> imager-b<2>% ssh -v jhc pwd
>> OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
>> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
>> debug1: Applying options for *
>> ssh: jhc: Name or service not known
>> ----
>> Some issues that may be relevant:
>> 1) jhc is my laptop, and is assigned an IP address by DHCP.
>> 2) To ssh from imager-b to my laptop I use the following command,  
>> 'ssh
>> jared at jhc.aoc-vis.nrao.edu'
>> 3) My user name on my laptop is Not the same as my user name on the
>> AOC network: "jared" on laptop; "jcrossle" on AOC computers.
>>
>> Regarding the instructions in the AIPS cookbook, p.12-14, jhc and
>> imager-b have different byte orders.  I have set environment variable
>> DISPLAY on imager-b to jhc.aoc-vis.nrao.edu:0 .  I have created file
>> jhc:~jared/.rhosts with one line, 'imager-b.aoc.nrao.edu jcrossle'.
>> The problem persists.
>>
>> Any advice is appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Jared
>>
>
> After talking to Lorant, I have setup ssh on my laptop to allow
> no-password logins from jcrossle at imager-b to jared at jhc.aoc- 
> vis.nrao.edu
> .  However, when I start AIPS on imager-b, I get the same error
> messages about the TV.
>
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