[daip] AIPS troubleshooting, Data directory undefined

[Wen-fai Fong]

Great, this worked with some minor modifications to the directory paths.
Thanks!

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:

> On 08/04/2015 01:27 PM, Wen-fai Fong wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>
> You do not seem to understand my message.  YOU must create this file, no
> one else connected to NRAO or AIPS will do it.  This file points at one or
> more data areas that YOU create.  Note that after you create the data areas
> and list them in the $HOME/.dadevs.always file, you must also create a
> zero-byte file named SPACE with at least owner and group write privilege.
>
> As an example only (DO NOT COPY the directory names):
>
>    cd
>    cd   /lustre/cfa/users/wfong
>    mkdir AIPS
>    cd AIPS
>    mkdir LUSTRE_1
>    mkdir LUSTRE_2
>    touch LUSTRE_1/SPACE LUSTRE_2/SPACE
>
> Then edit the file $HOME/.dadevs.always to look like
>
> +  /lustre/cfa/users/wfong/AIPS/LUSTRE_1
> -  /lustre/cfa/users/wfong/AIPS/LUSTRE_2
>
> Remember that these directory names probably cannot be used in your set up.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Eric Greisen <egreisen at nrao.edu
>> <mailto: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> <http://DADEVS.PL>)
>>         DADEVS.PL <http://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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