[daip] renaming a machine

[Eric Greisen]

Stephen P Reynolds writes:
 > Hello.  I was recently forced to rename the machine hosting AIPS
 > around here, and everything seems to have broken.  I guess that
 > names of things like data directories are all hard-coded at the
 > time of the initial installation.  I started trying to track all
 > these down but it's a hopeless task.  Is there a way to salvage
 > this, or do I need to do a complete reinstall (I hope not)?
 > 

Since I do not know what exactly you have done I am perplexed as to
the task being "hopeless".  The machine's name appears in 
    $AIPS_ROOT/HOSTS.LIST
    $NET0/DADEVS.LIST        to define data areas
    $NET0/NETSP              all the data areas
and as a directory name in
    $AIPS_ROOT/DA00
    $AIPS_ROOT/DATA   (or wherever DADEVS says the data areas are to
                       be found)

And that is all.

Now if you have made the machine name also the SITE name, then the
SITE name needs to be changed in the aforementioned HOSTS.LIST file
and as the name of the directory of $SYSLOCAL found in
    $TST/$ARCH/SYSTEM

Eric Greisen