[daip] AIPS & Leopard 10.5

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Tue Jan 8 15:51:34 EST 2008


Glenn Morrison writes:
 > Gents,
 > 
 > I'm about to buy the new Mac Pro and was wondering if AIPS and Mac OS  
 > X Leopard have any problems that I should be aware of?
 > 

      We have had o make some changes to the START_AIPS and
START_TVSERVERS and XAS.  Leopard does $DISPLAY for X as a named pipe
and we had some problems with this which we believe are solved.

 > 
 > 
 > Also, to run the 30-inch monitor in AIPS under Leopard, is the  
 > following info from your website all I need to do?
 > 
 > /etc/sysctl.conf file and put the values in it,
 >              kern.sysv.shmmax=10485760
 >              kern.sysv.shmmin=1
 >              kern.sysv.shmmni=32
 >              kern.sysv.shmseg=8
 >              kern.sysv.shmall=4096
 > 
 > --Many Thanks
 > 
 > --Glenn

I think so but we will have to find out in time with usage - Wes will
this do???

Eric Greisen




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