[daip] aips 31DEC07 -- missing MSGSERVER etc

[Eric Greisen]

Joe Cammisa writes:
 > 
 > greetings, eric.  i wanted to inform you that apparently some time away
 > from the computers helped clear my mind enough to come up with a simple
 > workaround to the issue we had been discussing.  specifically, when i
 > looked over the output of my redhat software upgrade immediately preceding
 > the problem, i saw that the local version of the xterm software had gone
 > from xterm-215-4.el5 to xterm-215-5.el5; therefore the most simple
 > solution was to yank this newer version and replace it with the one from
 > the original  installation media.  once that was done, no more link errors
 > occurred upon starting the msgserv or tekserv processes and everyone is
 > happy once again.  hopefully this "trick" will not hurt in unexpected ways
 > down the road (though i doubt it, as end users don't typically use xterm);
 > also hopefully this information might prove useful for you or others in
 > the future.  thanks again for your prompt response and input on this issue
 > under fire.  best regards,

Thanks for the note.  I hope this doesn't become a generally required
"solution" since we try to avoid having special OS installations for
AIPS.  It is bad enough asking for shared memory, XWindows, and
services changes that are just parameterizations.

I am also suprised that the end users do not use xterms.  The command
term used to abort aips if one hit an Enter with the caps lock on (or
a shift) since "capital Enter" and "lower-case Enter" actually
produced different signals to the software and GNU readline could not
handle the upper case one.  Is there some other kind of "term" that
people use?

Eric Greisen