[daip] random problems after AIPS installation

[Eric Greisen]

Amélie Saintonge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed AIPS yesterday on my Mac Intel laptop.  As far as I can  
> tell, the installation went fine (though I haven't tested the  
> software much).  However, since installing the software, several  
> things have gone wrong on my machine: emacs won't open, complaining  
> of not being able to connect to the X server,  IDL won't run because  
> it doesn't find the license file on my computer,...
> 
> This may be a total coincidence, but I doubt it: is it possible that  
> the AIPS installation has modified some basic setup/parameter files  
> on my system that could be causing these problems? Is there a way to  
> undo this?
> 

Let me echo Wes's comments.  AIPS does not modify system files in any 
way although the user may have to modify the display parameters to allow 
for TrueColor and large shared memory and new internet socket alias 
names, both of which require root-like privilege.  But install.pl will 
not do these things, you must do them by hand.  In fact, if install.pl 
discovers that it is being run as root, it quits since root has 
privilege to do the sorts of things you mention.

emacs requires X already to be running which is not the default on Macs 
- perhaps you closed the xterm for aips and no longer have an X running???

Eric Greisen