[daip] AIPS on evan

Bryan Butler bbutler at nrao.edu
Mon Feb 11 14:30:42 EST 2008


i tried to run aips following eric's prescription when logged in to evan 
with the operator's account and it failed (file permissions errors). 
i've sent a query to eric about it.

	-bryan


Emmanuel Momjian wrote:
> I was able to start aips successfully on 'evan' following Eric's to do 
> list.
> 
> The next thing to resolve is having printers for aips on evan, because 
> currently there seem to be none, and the stress test script will need to 
> print out some results for the operators to assess the observations. I 
> am wondering if a printer is available there and can be listed under aips.
> 
> Thanks,
> Emmanuel
> 
> Bryan Butler wrote:
>>
>> OK - we should add these lines as part of the operator's login script 
>> on  evan.  then it seems it should work.
>>
>>     -bryan
>>
>>
>> Eric Greisen wrote:
>>> You have a choice - run evan as a VLA computer or run it as an AOC
>>> computer.  It must actually run as a VLA computer in order to access
>>> on-line fillm (non AOC computers cannot access the AOC data areas for
>>> on-line data).  To do this
>>>
>>> cd /home/evan/AIPS
>>> source LOGIN.CSH   (for csh, tcsh)
>>> . LOGIN.SH         (for bash)
>>>
>>> Then say
>>>
>>> aips
>>>
>>> This is required for all machines not at the AOC.
>>>
>>> Eric Greisen




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