[daip] Installing AIPS on a Mac Intel

[Eric Greisen]

Nazirah JETHA writes:

 > I wonder if you can help me.  I've recently (read yesterday!)  
 > installed AIPS on a Mac Intel running OS X 10.4.10 from binaries.   
 > The installation went fine following the instructions online and  
 > there were no obvious error messages, and I can now run AIPS.   
 > However, I can't seem to run a TV window.  I start AIPS in the normal  
 > way and get this error message:
 > 
 > ?XASERVERS: Start TV LOCK daemon TVSERV on sapmcf117
 > XASERVERS: Start XAS on sapmcf117, DISPLAY :0
 > /Users/njetha/AIPS/31DEC07/SYSTEM/UNIX/XASERVERS: line 210: ./XAS:  
 > Permission denied
 > 
 > The TeK and MSG servers start fine, just not the TV server.  Do you  
 > have any ideas?

All I can suggest is that you cd to the load area

$AIPS_ROOT/31DEC07/MACINT/LOAD

and look at the permissions on all files XAS*

This seems to say that you do not have execute privilege for the file
XAS.

Eric Greisen