20041007: McIDAS 2003 on Linux machine

>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>Organization: CU/CIRES
>Keywords: 200410072103.i97L3DUE019418 McIDAS SYSKEY.TAB

Hi Hsie,

I apologize for not being able to answer this yesterday, but we are
in the middle of our Users Committee meeting.

>I run into this problem on a RedHat Linux (WS 3.0):
>
>squall:[84]% mcidas
>squall:[85]% Error in startup script: system key word 2301 read failed (-1)
>    while executing
>"mcidas syskey get $i"
>    (procedure "syskeyLoad" line 19)
>    invoked from within
>"syskeyLoad"
>    (file "/home/mcidas/linux/bin/mcgui.k" line 234)
>
>squall:[85]% 
>squall:[85]% pwd
>/home/hsie/mcidas/data
>squall:[86]% dmap.k 
>PERM      SIZE LAST CHANGED FILENAME   DIRECTORY
>---- --------- ------------ ---------- ---------
>-rw-      8848 Oct 07 14:55 SYSKEY.TAB /wrk/data6/mcidas
>8848 bytes in 1 files
>squall:[87]% ls -l /wrk/data6/mcidas/SYSKEY.TAB
>-rw-rw-r--    1 ldm      unidata      8848 Oct  7 14:55 
>/wrk/data6/mcidas/SYSKEY.TAB
>squall:[88]%

>
>The SYSKEY.TAB is global readable.  I do not have this problem in the Sun 
>Solaris machine.

The problem is your SYSKEY.TAB file is truncated.  It should be a lot
larger.  Here is a long listing from a test Linux machine in my office:

~: ls -alt /data/ldm/mcidas/SYSKEY.TAB
-rw-rw-r--  1 mcidas ldm 24000 Oct  8 09:18 /data/ldm/mcidas/SYSKEY.TAB

Your McIDAS session should be OK after you do the following:

cp ~mcidas/data/SYSKEY.TAB /wrk/data6/mcidas
chmod 664 /wrk/data6/mcidas/SYSKEY.TAB

Cheers,

Tom
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