[daip] AIPS on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

[Wes Young]

You also will need to reset the DISPLAY environment variable

export DISPLAY=localhost:0

or

setenv DISPLAY localhost:0

in the xterm that you run aips from to get the local tv.

wes
wyoung at aoc.nrao.edu



On Nov 9, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Eric Greisen wrote:

> Adam J. Mott writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I had AIPS working under Mac OS version 10.4 (Tiger), but I recently
>> upgraded to 10.5 (Leopard).  Are you aware of any special  
>> instructions for
>> running AIPS under the new version of Mac OS?
>>
>> I know I'm supposed to edit the /etc/services file and add the  
>> lines shown
>> on the AIPS Mac installation webpage.  But I also remember having  
>> to edit
>> the /etc/rc file to get the AIPS TV to work under Tiger.  Now with  
>> the new
>> Mac OS, the /etc/rc file is no longer there, but there is an /etc/ 
>> rc.common
>> and /etc/rc.netboot.  I'm not sure which of these two files (if  
>> any) I
>> should edit.
>
> OK, /etc/rc is gone and creating it will have no effect.  You need to
> create an /etc/sysctl.conf file and put the values in it,
>
> ldog:etc wyoung$ cat sysctl.conf
> kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
> kern.sysv.shmmin=1
> kern.sysv.shmmni=32
> kern.sysv.shmseg=8
> kern.sysv.shmall=4096
>
> You should use the values you had when you were running tiger.  Those
> could be in /Previous\ System/etc/rc, assuming you have "Previous
> System". So three different OS upgrades and three different ways to
> adjust the default shared memory.
>
> wes
> wkyoungnm at mac.com
>
>
> I have updated the Mac and aipsmgr FAQ pages.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
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