[daip] [!6482]: aips - AIPS X11 socket errors in Mac OS 10.10.3 (Yosemite)

[Joshua Malone]

Joshua Malone updated #6482
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AIPS X11 socket errors in Mac OS 10.10.3 (Yosemite)
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           Ticket ID: 6482
                 URL: https://help.nrao.edu/staff/index.php?/Tickets/Ticket/View/6482
           Full Name: Joshua Malone
               Email: jmalone at nrao.edu
             Creator: User
          Department: AIPS Data Processing
       Staff (Owner): Eric Greisen
                Type: Issue
              Status: Open
            Priority: Default
                 SLA: NRAO E2E
      Template Group: Default
             Created: 17 April 2015 06:55 PM
             Updated: 21 April 2015 03:53 PM
      Resolution Due: 27 April 2015 06:55 PM (6d 3h 1m)



The issue seems to be related to the change in the DISPLAY variable. Prior to 10.10, $DISPLAY was set to a socket in /tmp/.... and I see there is code in AIPS to deal with this socket. However, in 10.10(.3?) this variable has changed to /private/tmp/... Although /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp on OSX, the code in AIPS is still looking for '^/tmp' and thus does not trigger.

Manually changing $DISPLAY to '/tmp/...'  (i.e., strip the leading "/private") fixes the issue and AIPS starts normally.

Can the code be patched to look for '^/(private/)*/tmp' instead?

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