[daip] AIPS troubleshooting, Data directory undefined

[Wen-fai Fong]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I can't seem to locate that file in my
$HOME area or lustre account. I've asked other people who use cfa-transient
and we are brainstorming...

Thanks,

Wen-fai

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:

> On 07/30/2015 02:56 PM, Wen-fai Fong wrote:
>
>> Dear Eric,
>>
>> I'm trying to run AIPS for the first time on a new account that NRAO
>> just created for me, under cfa-pipe-1 @ lustre.
>>
>> I've set AIPS_ROOT to /home/AIPS and when I start AIPS it gives me this
>> message:
>>
>> START_AIPS: Enter your choice, or the word QUIT [default is 3]:
>> START_AIPS: Your initial AIPS printer is the Network PostScript printer
>> two-sided
>> START_AIPS:  - system name aoc213/dup, AIPS type PS
>>
>> START_AIPS: User data area assignments:
>>    (Using COAOARN-specific default file
>> /home/AIPS/DA00/DADEVS.LIST.COAOARN for DADEVS.PL <http://DADEVS.PL>)
>> DADEVS.PL <http://DADEVS.PL> error - no disks selected at all
>> This is a FATAL error and nothing in AIPS will work.
>>
>> START_AIPS: Cannot start AIPS because there are no defined data areas!
>> START_AIPS: (check DADEVS.LIST or .dadevs files, or AIPSASSN.\*)
>>
>>
>> I've also tried to set the data directory by the following:
>> export DATA=/lustre/aoc/cfa-transient/wfong/data
>>
>> What step am I missing? How do I properly define the data areas?
>>
>> Sorry for the inconvenience.
>>
>> Wen-fai Fong
>>
>
> In general, you have to set up data areas and then specify them in a text
> file in your $HOME area.  The file is called .dadevs.always (note the dots
> before and after dadevs).  The format is fixed in that a + or a minus comes
> in column 1, then 2 spaces, then the path to the data area:  My file looks
> like
>
> +  /lustre/aoc/users/egreisen/AIPS/LUSTRE_1
> -  /lustre/aoc/users/egreisen/AIPS/LUSTRE_2
>
> but of course you must have your own data areas on disks assigned to
> cfa-pipe-1.  I do not have privilege to look on that machine so I cannot
> help you further.  Perhaps others at CfA could help.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>
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