[daip] VLANT message

[Eric Greisen]

Rob Ivison wrote:
> thanks, Eric -
> 
> wget works fine, but not inside AIPS. odd!
> 
> ~ 16:18 > wget ftp://ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/VLA/baselines/baselines.vlais09
> --16:19:08-- ftp://ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/VLA/baselines/baselines.vlais09
>            => `baselines.vlais09'
> Resolving ftp.aoc.nrao.edu... 146.88.1.10
> Connecting to ftp.aoc.nrao.edu|146.88.1.10|:21... connected.
> Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
> ==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
> ==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub/VLA/baselines ... done.
> ==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR baselines.vlais09 ... done.
> Length: 3,544 (3.5K) (unauthoritative)
> 
> 100%[====================================>] 3,544         20.72K/s
> 
> 16:19:10 (20.70 KB/s) - `baselines.vlais09' saved [3544]
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Eric Greisen wrote:
> 
>> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:59:05 -0600
>> From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
>> To: Rob Ivison <rji at roe.ac.uk>
>> Cc: daip at nrao.edu
>> Subject: Re: [daip] VLANT message
>>
>> Rob Ivison wrote:
>>> on each of my systems (Mac, Linux, Linux64, all running the midnight 
>>> job on 31DEC09) i get the following error message when running VLANT. 
>>> has a dependency changed?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> broom.> VLANT1: Task VLANT  (release of 31DEC09) begins
>>> broom.> VLANT1: TFETCH: wget OF DATA FILE FAILED AFTER wget
>>> broom.> VLANT1: Trying curl instead
>>> broom.> VLANT1: TFETCH: curl OF DATA FILE FAILED
>>> broom.> VLANT1: ERROR    2 OPENING FILE FOR YEAR 2009
>>> broom.> VLANT1: Purports to die of UNNATURAL causes
>>> broom.> VLANT1: broom        31DEC09 TST: Cpu=       0.0  Real=       3
>>>
>> Has the firewalls or other protections at your site changed?
>>
>> Try a wget on your machine:
>>
>>      ftp://ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/VLA/baselines/baselines.vlais09
>>
>> to see what error messages you get (do this under Linux - Macs use curl)
>>
>> I attach the file it is attempting to fetch which is where it is 
>> supposed to be and with correct protections.
>>
>> Sore it under name $AIPSTARS/VLA.ant.2009
>>
>> But try the wget since this file will change with time (don't leave it 
>> in $AIPSTARS...)
>>
>> Eric Greisen
>>

I have no answer for why all architectures should fail at once at one 
site other than some change at that site in firewalls - or perhaps in 
privilege to write in /tmp.

Eric Greisen