[daip] AIPS TV on OSX

[Eric Greisen]

On 09/14/2014 10:48 PM, Chris.Phillips at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi Eric
>
> I have just setup AIPS on my new 10.9 Mac laptop and think there is a
> minor error on the documentation for getting the TV server to run. I
> have followed the instructions to get shared memory setup correctly.
>
> http://www.aips.nrao.edu/aipsmgr/index.html
>
> However I did NOT need to reboot. I created  the sysctl.conf file as
> suggested but then ran the sysctl command (as root) for the values which
> were different than default. This seems enough to get it to work.
>
> Regards
> Chris

In general, we assume that users cannot (or should not) run as root.
On one's own laptop, a reboot is generally not a big deal.

ERic Greisen