[daip] MNJ Problem

Eric Greisen egreisen at nrao.edu
Mon May 23 10:39:13 EDT 2011


Walter Alef wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> The MNJ is failing in our AIPS installation and on our cluster.
> 
> Here is what I see when I run do_daily interactively on our cluster. Is it 
> unable to get a lock at NRAO?
> 
> AIPSUPD - calling UPDCVS                                                        
> cvs update: ignoring 31DEC11/LINUX/SYSTEM/COAOARN (CVS/Repository missing)      
> cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/home/aipssrc/cvs/31DEC11' 
> (/home/aipssrc/cvs/31DEC11/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
> cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
> `/home/aipssrc/cvs/31DEC11'                                                     
> cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up                                                                                  
> 

The mnj prep job was broken when the computer management removed the 
"aipscvs" account for which no one knew the password or even what it 
does.  Apparently it is essential to the prep and to the reading of the 
cvs area of aips.  It has been restored.

Eric Greisen




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