[daip] Added new AIPS disks, error message from ZDCHIN about NETSP entry

[Amy Mioduszewski]

Hi Susan,

Sorry it took so long to get back to you, Eric is in Africa for the next couple 
weeks and I was swamped by the proposal deadline.

First things first, that NETSP message will not effect anything.  The NETSP 
entry just assigns a TIMDEST length and allowed user numbers.  For stand alone 
installations it is not very important.  As for why you are getting the message, 
my guess is your analysis is correct and it is because the names are different 
in the two files.

Amy

Susan Neff wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> I hope things are going well for you, in between the 
> changes in management out there.
> 
> [Do I need (would it be of any help to you) to submit 
> this to the NRAO helpdesk?]
> 
> 
> We (David Friedlander, system administrator here, and 
> I) added two new big disks to my Mac Pro desktop 
> machine.  I run AIPS standalone on it, as I do for my 
> laptop.  We modified the DADEVS file and the NETSP 
> file in the aips root area to add the new disks.  AIPS 
> sees the disks and (as far as I can tell so far), 
> works fine with them.
> 
> However, when we start AIPS, we] get error messages 
> saying:
>     ZDCHIN: NO NETSP ENTRY FOR DA01  (DA02, DA03...)
> 
> I don't remember getting these error messages before, 
> but when I try starting AIPS on my laptop (for 
> comparison), I get the same error messages on that 
> system.  I'm thinking that I may have just "forgotten 
> to see" the messages before (but I notice them now, 
> when checking out the new disks).
> 
> 
> I see that the AIPS Manager FAQs say that the disks 
> need to have the identical name in NETSP as they have 
> in DADEVS.LIST.  They do not have (and have not had 
> for quite a while) the same names on either of my 
> machine, although they do (and have for quite a while) 
> point to the same data areas, even though the names 
> (in NETSP and in DADEVS.LIST) of the files are 
> different.  [I believe the different names have to do 
> with historic, no longer applicable, systems for 
> naming disks here.]
> 
> Example:
>      In DADEVS.LIST, AIPS disk 1: is  
> /Volumes/Apps_and_Docs/sgneff/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
>      In NETSP, AIPS disk 1 is:       
> /Users/neff/aips/DATA/LOCALHOST_1
>      In both cases,  LOCALHOST_1 is a link to the 
> (same) real data area.
> 
> 
> So, a few questions:
> 
> 1) Is the mismatch between the names likely to be 
> causing the error message, or is it likely to be 
> somewhere else?
> 
> 
> 2) Do I need to worry about these error messages?   If 
> I'm using the desktop machine stand-alone, as I use my 
> laptop, does this matter?  Are there tasks or verbs 
> that will not work if I'm getting those error messages?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or insight you can provide,
> -s-
> 
> 
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