[daip] AIPS installation query

[Catherine Brocksopp]

Hi Eric

That's great, many thanks - seems to work happily now on the new machine.

I will try the upgrade soon - as a trial run I thought I'd try installing 
AIPS from scratch on a separate laptop so no chance of me messing anything 
up which currently works. It seems to have nearly worked but crashed once 
it got to FILAIP as it couldn't find the data areas - there are a few 
things I think I can check but I apologise in advance for the questions I 
will probably be sending you next week.

In the meantime, many thanks again for your help - very much appreciated

Catherine


On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Catherine Brocksopp writes:
> >
> > I've edited HOSTS.LIST, DADEVS.LIST and NETSP.
> > I've created a new directory containing SPACE in both DA00 and DATA
> > I've copied the whole contents of DA00 to 31DEC04/LINUX/TEMPLATE/.
> > I've run LOGIN.CSH
> > I've run SYSETUP <hostname>
> >
> > And there are no complaints.
>
>    this all sounds good so I cannot tell what went wrong
>
> >    (Using global default file
> > /disk/xray4/xraysw/linux/aips/DA00/DADEVS.LIST)
> >     Disk 1 (1) is /disk/xray4/xraysw/linux/aips/DATA/MSSLLT_1
>
>    The edit of DADEVS.LIST has worked.
>
> > START_AIPS: I am GUESSING you are at a workstation called mssllt
> > START_AIPS: Starting TV servers on mssllt asynchronously
> > START_AIPS:  - with Internet Sockets...
> > START_AIPS: Starting TPMON daemons on MSSLLT asynchronously...
> > Starting up 31DEC04 AIPS with normal priority
> >   ZMSGOP: FILE DA01:MSD001000.001;      NOT FOUND
> > MSGWRT ERROR      2 AT OPEN
>
>      This error (no aips 1 message file) can be cured by entering 1
> as the user number with password AMANAGER.  Then do restart and enter
> whatever user number you want.
>
> > ZDCHI1: ZOPEN: FILE DA00:SPD000000;          NOT FOUND
>
>      This error is serious and says that SYSETUP did not work
> correctly.  The data area
>    /disk/xray4/xraysw/linux/aips/DA00/MSSLLT/
> should contain a bunch of files.  For example on my machine they are
>
> primate<196>$ cd /home/AIPS/DA00/PRIMATE
> /home/AIPS/DA00/PRIMATE
> primate<197>$ ls
> ACD000000;  BAD001008;  BAD002007;   MED000003;  MED00000B;   TPD001003;
> BAD001001;  BAD001009;  BAD002008;   MED000004;  PWD000000;@  TPD001004;
> BAD001002;  BAD002001;  BAD002009;   MED000005;  SPACE        TPD001005;
> BAD001003;  BAD002002;  BQD000000;   MED000006;  SPD000000;   TPD001006;
> BAD001004;  BAD002003;  GRD000000;@  MED000007;  TCD000001;   TPD001007;
> BAD001005;  BAD002004;  ICD000000;   MED000008;  TDD000004;   TPD001008;
> BAD001006;  BAD002005;  MED000001;   MED000009;  TPD001001;   TPD001009;
> BAD001007;  BAD002006;  MED000002;   MED00000A;  TPD001002;   TPD00100A;
> primate<198>$
>
> Note that the PW and GR files are links to the one in the template
> area so that all machines share these.  That is a nicety that is
> unimportant these days.  Try just copying the files from
>    /disk/xray4/xraysw/linux/aips/DA00/????/
> where ???? is the old machine name to
>    /disk/xray4/xraysw/linux/aips/DA00/MSSLLT/
>
> Installing a new version is now easy.  Go to the directory
>    /disk/xray4/xraysw/linux/aips/
> get the file at
>    ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/software/aips/31DEC07/install.pl
> Then check for a file in your home directory named .AIPSRC  which you
> may have to edit.  then do
>    perl install.pl -n
> where the -n says network => binary installation of load modules that
> will run faster than ones compiled with the gnu compiler.
>
> Eric Greisen
>