[daip] Problems with AIPSDEC08 installation

[Eric Greisen]

Miguel Ángel Pérez Torres wrote:
> Dear Dr. Greisen,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Indeed, the XAS seemed to be still running. Actually, looking at the  
> messages given by "ps -f | grep AIPS" I got the following:
> 
> 501  1716   347   0   0:00.00 ttys000    0:00.00 grep AIPS
> 501  1149   453   0   0:00.03 ttys001    0:00.07 AIPS1
> 501  1432     1   0   0:00.04 ttys001    0:00.09 ./XAS -display :0 -t  
> X-AIPS tv Screen Server 98 - INET -n AIPS98-INET
> 
> 
> So XAS was still running.
> Killing the XAS process ("kill -9 <XAS_process_number>") resulted in  
> throwing me out of AIPS.
> 
> However, using "aips tv=local" has solved the problem.  I am a bit  
> puzzled, since I thought this (TV=local) was the default.
> Anyway, the important thing is that this problem is now fixed.
>
The tv=local has its own problems including many options so it is not 
the deafult.  It appears that there is some sort of issue with your 
computer talking to itself via the internet sockets.  That is 
system-level black magic I do not understand.  So long as you do not 
want to talk between computers (much) the tv=local is frequently faster 
and otherwise quite acceptable.

Cheers,

Eric Greisen