[daip] Fwd: Re: Aips calibration seems to have changed

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 23/06/11 15:46, Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo wrote:
> Here is Eric's answer concerning what aips fecthes from the internet. I
> dont use any of those with the GMRT data.
> 
> Eric is also wondering what kind of updates we did with my computer.
> Could one of you answer? :)
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Julie
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [daip] Aips calibration seems to have changed
> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:35:37 -0600
> From: Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu>
> Organisation: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
> To: Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo <juliehl at ast.cam.ac.uk>
> CC: daip at nrao.edu
> 
> Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Thanks again for your insights. We've been trying a couple of things on
>> our side to see what went wrong, and were wondering if any of the tasks
>> in aips go and fetch something from the internet? We're looking to see
>> if the updates we did on my computer last week before the incident might
>> have changed some of the paths.
>>
> /home/primate/AIPS/31DEC11/RUN/VLBAUTIL.001
> /home/primate/AIPS/31DEC11/RUN/VLAPROCS.001
> /home/primate/AIPS/31DEC11/HELP/VLBAEOPS.HLP
> /home/primate/AIPS/31DEC11/HELP/VLBATECR.HLP
> /home/primate/AIPS/31DEC11/HELP/VLATECR.HLP
> /home/primate/AIPS/31DEC11/APL/PGM/NOTST/VLANT.FOR
> 
> is the complete list of things that fetch files.  The scripts (RUN
> files) fetch info from the web on the position of the north pole (EOP)
> and the TECR scripts fetch info on the total electron count.  VLANT is
> used to correct VLA and EVLA antenna positions and fetches a data file
> for 2011 from the NRAO web site.  The files for previous years are
> shipped with AIPS.
> 
> Eric Greisen
> 
> 
> What updates did you do on your computer?
> 
Just the usual Fedora operating system updates, that happen
automatically via the con job.

I've checked back in the logs for obvious changes that might have
affected aips, but couldn't see anything relevant, like glibc.

Roderick

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