Re: iraf....

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

Maciej Reszelski wrote:
> 
> Dear Friends
> 
> Sorry for my english at first :)
> Just I planned join to TASS project. But I must
> install IRAF. I have a RedHat 7.1 and must say
> that manuals on IRAF Homepage confused me (very!).

The instructions are intended for a reader who is
a professional UNIX system admin and even then are
not 100% clear.  You can look on the STSDAS site
(linked from IRAF's home page) and find someplace
the STSDAS System Manager's Guide.  This is _much_
better written and includes instructions for IRAF
as STSDAS depends on IRAF.  But see below.  Your
specific problem is is easy to fix.

> First I must create iraf account:
> oki I created but there's a problem create dir
> /iraf/iraf/local as home. So I tried /home/iraf/iraf/local
> Works...
> Then I logaut fro root and login as iraf
> Works...
> Then I try unpack and cat files as.*
> Output: something like you don't have permission .
> So I tried as root...

You created the directory while root.  So "root"
was the owner of the directory.  Later you signed
in as "iraf" and sure enough, "iraf" did not have
permission is write files into a directory owned
by root.  The solution is to (as root) use the 
"chown" to change the ownership.
Try this:  chown -R iraf /home/iraf
but first see "man chown".

Also you could have used one of the system utilies
like "adduser" or one of the GIU point and click
things to creat the user "iraf" and it would have
done the "chown for you.


> but seems that iaf not works at all even after
> runing install script. Could anyone tell me,
> to beginner in iraf and linux iraf configuration,
> what I should to do? Step by step....
> 
> THANKS FOR ANY HELP!!!
> Best regards,
> Maciej

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