[daip] AIPS installation problems (for Synthesis Imaging Workshop at NMT)

[Eric Greisen]

Joel Eidsath wrote:
> Eric Greisen wrote:
>> Perhaps I do not understand your plan or what you are doing.  Are you 
>> installing aips separately on each computer so that each computer sees 
>> only itself?  That might work - although it is a lot of copies of a 
>> big package.
> The plan is to install separate copies of aips. The rpm only comes to 
> 500M, and the install to 1.2G, so it's not a big enough part of our 
> storage resources or bandwidth to worry about. Setting up the server 
> version is a bit more hassle on the administration side (provisioning a 
> server, adjusting firewalls, coming up with rpms for the clients anyway, 
> etc.).
> 
>> Look at the SPACE file in /usr/local/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1 and the 
>> permissions on that directory.  The user must have axxess (write) to 
>> both.
>>
>> Eric Greisen
>>
> SPACE appears to be installed with the wrong permissions. I'm fixing 
> this manually in our rpm spec file, which corrects the problem, but I 
> think it's a problem with your install.pl script.
> 
> Is there anything more I should do to test the installation, beyond the 
> 'print 1 + 1' command?
> 
I suspect that Amy and I must come over and actually run things some to 
make sure they work.

There are lots of things to look at - try the command TVINIT assuming 
you start with "aips tv=local"

SPACE is not normally a problem - so I am dubious about your complaint 
on install.pl.

Eric Greisen