[daip] Issue with the AIPS tv on the CENTOS 7

[Eric Greisen]

On 05/07/2018 10:42 PM, ABINASH KUMAR SHAW wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Your guess in right. Initially I had installed with the option Y at the 
> screen 5a. I have corrected that mistake and later installed by choosing 
> N at the screen 5a and it solved the AIPS Tv problem. Now instead of 
> Localhost I have the data area (/home/aips/DATA/UNIVERSE_1) in the name 
> of the host desktop (UNIVERSE). Now the TV and all are working fine.
> Thank you for your suggestions. I have one more question.
> 
> We work on the desktops which is connected to a file server and each of 
> our user home area is mounted on the servers. We use desktops like 
> UNIVERSE which are connected to the server (NFS). Now the installation 
> has made a data area /home/aips/DATA/UNIVERSE_1. Now I want to use other 
> data area which is in my user home mounted on the file server. For that 
> I have made a folder and added its path in the .dadevs  file but there 
> is some problem and the new data folder is not available to the AIPS.
> 
> The snippets of the problem looks like --
> 
> *START_AIPS: User data area assignments:*
> *DADEVS.PL <http://DADEVS.PL>: This program is untested under Perl 
> version 5.016*
> *  (Using private file /usr1/home1/abinash/.dadevs for DADEVS.PL 
> <http://DADEVS.PL>)*
> *                  /usr1/home1/abinash/DATA/UNIVERSE_2 is currently 
> unavailable.*
> *   Disk 1 (1) is /home/aips/DATA/UNIVERSE_1*
> 

The data area needs a file called SPACE that it uses for locking as it 
creates files.

cd /usr1/home1/abinash/DATA/UNIVERSE_2
touch SPACE
chmod 666 SPACE

and you should be good to go.

ERic Greisen