[daip] Fwd: AIPS error MSGS

[Eric Greisen]

Gm Laghari wrote:
> 
> And again if I use aips tv=local, I just put number ID 1 and default 
> password then I am getting this screen shot.
> 
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> From: *Gm Laghari* <gmlaghari at gmail.com <mailto:gmlaghari at gmail.com>>
> Date: Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 2:56 PM
> Subject: Fwd: AIPS error MSGS
> To: daip at nrao.edu <mailto:daip at nrao.edu>, aipsmail at nrao.edu 
> <mailto:aipsmail at nrao.edu>
> 
> 
> Dear NRAO
> 
> Hope you are good. I have just started working on AIPS. I am used to of 
> MIRIAD. After installation of binary source via INTERNET, I am receiving 
> some errors which I could not understand. How do I find mu User ID 
> number? Could you please help me out.
> 
> Here is screen shots of errors.
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Ghulam Mustafa

In your first message you set tv=TVDEVS which is a wrong usage - tv = 
host_name is correct when you have set up the system services file to 
know about the standard socket numbers we use.

In the current case, things should have worked with tv=local but two 
strange things show up.  The first is that $DISPLAY is :2.  That is very 
unusual and suggests it is trying to go to some odd XWindows instance - 
but I do not know enough to be certain that is wrong in your case (:0.0 
is what I get on Mac and Linux).  The second is that UNIXSERVERS 
complains at every instance of the function NEWEST which we provide with 
AIPS.  I wonder if your system has some other function called NEWEST 
which does not work like ours.  UNIXSEVERS says for example
     NEWEST MSSRV1 MSGSRV.EXE
and expects to return the name of whichever is newer.  Perhaps $LOAD is 
missing stuff - cd to $LOAD and do an
    ls -lt MS* TKS* TEK* XAS*
and see if anything is present.  Also do a "which NEWEST" to make sure
that your $PATH includes the aips libraries first.

Eric Greisen