20050516: could not get the McIDAS shell programs (cont.)

>From: "Mekonnen Gebremichael" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University
>Keywords: 200504201601.j3KG1gv2005753 McIDAS access

Hi Mekonnen,

Sorry to take so long to get back to you, but I have been
in committee meetings for the past three days.

>The error message ("IMGDISP: stretch table specified in
>SU= does not exist on server") still persists unpon executing the command
>'imgdisp'. As you suggested, I did ' DATALOC ADD RTIMAGES atm.geo.nsf.gov',
>but found the error message 'DATALOC couldnot resolve ATM.GEO.NSF.GOV. entry
>not filed.

Hmm...  This indicates something strange with your session.  I tried
using 'nslookup atm.geo.nsf.gov' to see if the name could be resolved
and I found that this didn't work.  Closer inspection showed that your
PATH did not have the /usr/sbin directory included, so I added it.
While at it, I modified PATH to include the /home/space/mcidas/bin
directory in it.  The reason for this is that you were continually
resetting PATH in ~/mek11.cshrc.  This was causing a problem in your
McIDAS session.

After adding /usr/sbin to the end of your PATH and
/home/space/mcidas/bin to the beginning of your PATH, I was able to run
a McIDAS session to begin troubleshooting the error you report above.
Unfortunately, DATALOC would still not work:

% dataloc.k ADD RTIMAGES atm.geo.nsf.gov
dataloc.k: Could not resolve ATM.GEO.NSF.GOV. Entry not filed.

This indicates some sort of a problem with your McIDAS build as does
the original error you report.

>I would appreciate if you could logon and take a look.
>The datafile is available under '/disk/space/mek11/GOESdatanew'.
>Let me know if this works for you.

I logged on with no problems, and confirmed the problems you are
seeing.  The only thing I can think of is that there is some problem
with the McIDAS build, but will need the password for the 'mcidas'
account in order to see what is possibly wrong.  Can you give me this
login?

I think that if I can get on as 'mcidas', I will be able to get to the
heart of the problem you are seeing quickly.

>Thank you,

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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