[daip] AIPS private version task does not work

[Eric Greisen]

Juan-Carlos Algaba-Marcos wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> 
> I am trying to run a private version of RM task in 31DEC10 version of AIPS on a
> Scientific Linux machine. This version has worked fine so far under Ubuntu Linux and
> Mandriva Linux, but in my current distribution the task seems to be doing nothing (the
> AIPS prompt dissapears but no information is displayed in the message server) and, after
> a while, I receive the following error message on the terminal:
> 
> AIPS 1: TASK HAS NOT BEGUN IN   52.3 SECONDS
> AIPS 1: Begin check for any 'standard' scratch files
> AIPS 1: Scratch files -- destroyed:    0  still active:    0
> AIPS 1: Resumes
> 
> I have the files renamed as RMNEW so that they don't collide with the standar version of
> the task and stored in the adequate folders; ie:
> 31DEC10/HELP/RMNEW.HLP
> 31DEC10/LINUX/LOAD/RMNEW.EXE
> 31DEC10/APL/PGM/NOTST/RMNEW.FOR
> I asked the system administrator for a series of things such as renaming the files,
> changing the user, group and/or modes but nothing seems to work so far. I have checked
> that O'Sullivan had a similar problem (see
> http://listmgr.cv.nrao.edu/pipermail/daip/2010-May/015438.html) but this doesn't apply
> to me, as I am not using a mac computer.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions for this issue?

Try

ldd $LOAD/RMNEW.EXE

and see if any of the required libraries are not present on the current
computer.  You may have to do separate compile/link on this computer.

Eric Greisen