19990915: DU McIDAS mcinstall (cont.)

>From: Michael Keables <address@hidden>
>Organization: DU
>Keywords: 199908262233.QAA03752 McIDAS RedHat 6.0 Linux

Mike,

>OS: RedHat 6.0
>When installing mcinet7.6.sh I received the following error:
>
>[root@nimbus mcidas]# sh mcinet7.6.sh install mcadde
>mcinet7.6: /etc/services: mcserv: adding service lines
>11222
>11270
>mcinet7.6: /etc/services: mccompress: adding line
>11270
>11325
>mcinet7.6: /etc/inetd.conf: mcserv: adding line
>2995
>3078
>mcinet7.6: /etc/inetd.conf: mccompress: adding line
>3078
>3165
>mcinet7.6: telling inetd to reread its configuration
>mcinet7.6: waiting for inetd to reread its configuration
>mcinet7.6: ERROR: cannot find netstat
>
>Suggestions?

Strange that netstat can't be found since it is in /bin on nimbus.  I
will have to check in mcinet7.6.sh to make sure that a set of paths is
not hardcoded, and /bin is not one of them.

All that is going on here is that mcinet7.6.sh is trying to determine
if inetd.conf has received an HUP signal and has reread its
configuration file, /etc/inetd.conf.  inetd.conf is modified by
mcinet7.6.sh before the HUP is sent.

By the way, the reason to setup the ADDE remote server is so that
McIDAS data files can be served to remote machines.  I believe (after
logging onto cyclone as mcidas but tell me if I am wrong), I now
remember that you were going to setup a Sun SPARC machine to be the
primary LDM data "ingestor" and decoding platform.  If this is the
case, then you really only need to setup the ADDE remote server on it
(cyclone.natnet.du.edu?).  You will need to build and install McIDAS-X
(but not McIDAS-XCD) on the Linux box since it will not be able to
use the Solaris binaries.

>Also, I had to create /usr/local/include before issuing the ftp call for
>f2c.h ... was this directory supposed to exist prior to building McIDAS?

I am not sure that it was supposed to exist.  Your creating it as root
was the right thing to do, however.

>>From address@hidden  Wed Sep 15 16:43:38 1999
>
>If you need to login to nimbus, you will need to do so as root. I'm having
>a minor problem creating the mcadde account to use the same home
>directory, and until I get it cleared up the mcidas login will not
>function.

The thing I saw was that the home directory for 'mcidas' seemed to have
vanished.  What happened?  The good news is that even if the McIDAS
installation disappeared, your machine is so fast that rebuilding is a
snap.

Tom