[daip] Issues with AIPS 31DEC22 Binary Installation {External}

[Abhijit Kayal]

Thank you so much, Eric. My issue is resolved now.

Regards,
Abhijit

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 10:42 PM egreisen <egreisen at nrao.edu> wrote:

> On 2023-05-15 09:06, Abhijit Kayal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you so much for your help. I have found the lines containing
> > 31DEC23 in the AIPSPATH (.SH and .CSH) files and changed them to
> > 31DEC22. My earlier issue is resolved. However, now I am facing a new
> > issue in the "Data disk assignments:" part.  The error message is as
> > follows:
> >
> > "
> > ...
> >
> > DADEVS.PL [1] error - no disks selected at all
> > This is a FATAL error and nothing in AIPS will work.
> >
> > *********************************************************
> > HELP!  No Defined data areas!  You can proceed now to run
> > program FILAIP, but you may see LOTS of complaints about
> > not being able to access the message file.  If you think
> > there should have been some data areas defined, please
> > check DADEVS.LIST or .dadevs files, or AIPSASSN.\*
> > *********************************************************
> > ...
> >
> > "
> >
> > It seems to be related to the data areas where it is unable to find
> > it. I have already given the full path to the data area. I am sharing
> > the configuration with which I am installing AIPS:
> >
> > AIPS_ROOT (screen 3): /home/abhijit/AIPS/AIPS_31DEC22
> >        Group (screen 4): abhijit
> >  Group Write (screen 4): YES
> > Architecture (screen 5): LNX64
> >    Site name (screen 5): ABHIJIT
> >   AIPS hosts (screen 6): LOCALHOST
> >   Data areas (screen 7): /home/abhijit/AIPS/AIPS_31DEC22_DATA
> >     Printers (screen 8):   Paper type (screen 8): A
> >  Tape drives (screen 9):
> >   Tape hosts (screen 9): 127.0.0.1
> >
> > Could you please tell me where I am going wrong?
> >
>
> DADEVS looks in the file DADEVS.LIST to see if any data areas belong
> to your computer - in this case LOCALHOST.  If none are named with
> LOCALHOST in the name, then none are found.  An alternative would be
> to change the DADEVS.LIST file from a minus sign in column one to a
> plus sign.  That says that the data area so marked is always included
> no matter the computer name.  Note that we have to do this sort of thing
> since there were about 100 computers here in Socorro running aips.
>
> Eric Greisen
>
>

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Abhijit Kayal

Astronomy & Astrophysics Division
Physical Research Laboratory,
Ahmedabad 380009, India
Contact: +91 79 2631 4611
Email: abhijitkayal02 at gmail.com, abhijitk at prl.res.in
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