[daip] AIPS START_TVSERVER

[Eric Greisen]

Mar Mezcua wrote:
> Dear Eric Greisen,
> 
> I am a PhD student who recently installed AIPS in her Mac OS X. 
> When I run it, I had a message saying something like that AIPS couldn't find the NEWEST in the UNIXSERVERS.
> 
> Following your suggestions from the website, I modified the UNIXSERVERS and wrote $SYSLOCAL/NEWEST instead of NEWEST.
> Now, when I run it, all the error messages I had before do not appear. But now I get:
> 
> /Users/mmezcua/aips/START_TVSERVERS: line 189: /Users/mmezcua/aips/31DEC11/SYSTEM/UNIX/UNIXSERVERS: Permission denied
> 
> (I installed AIPS in /Users/mmezcua/aips).
> 
> I have checked the permissions for UNIXSERVERS and they are:
> -rw-r--r--@
> 
> I have tried to modify them, but I cannot (even using root). And I do not know what the '@' means.
> 
> Do you have any idea of which is the problem?
> 
> Thank you very much.
>

One of our system experts suggests:

I was going to say the same thing I'm guessing it must be some weird OSX 
thing
I would suggest that the student try
diskutil repairPermissions /Volumes/<disk name>

if that is available to them