>From: "John D. Tucker" <address@hidden> >Organization: Western Michigan >Keywords: 200007181435.e6IEZAT22632 McIDAS-X -XCD LDM ldm-mcidas intall John, After you increased the disk quota for 'mcidas', I was able to finish building and installing McIDAS-X. I exercised McIDAS-X in several different ways and am convinced that the code is ready to be used. There are a few tasks left to do, however. Here goes: 1) 'root' needs to increase the amount of shared memory on all machines that will run McIDAS-X. Guidelines for doing this can be found in: Unidata McIDAS http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx Unidata McIDAS-X HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/mcx_main.html Unidata McIDAS-X Installation Instructions http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/mcidas-x.html Initial Preparations http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/prepare_mcx.html Preparing the Workstation http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/workstation.html Each machine will need to be rebooted after the shared memory modification is made. The recommended amount of shared memroy for Sun Solaris machines is 512 MB. Please don't let this number scare you. Increasing it does not consume system resources by itself, but it will allow for several simultaneous McIDAS-X sessions with a number of large frames. 2) the McIDAS remote ADDE server needs to be setup. The instructions on the McIDAS web pages are for systems not using NIS/NIS+. Since you are running NIS, you will have to make the modifications a different way. Basically, the configurations needed are: o define port 500 and 503 services for McIDAS-X o define inetd.conf entries for the port 500 and 503 services On systems not running NIS, the procedure for 'root' setting up the ADDE remote server is: o create a 'mcadde' account that has the same HOME directory as the user 'mcidas', but has as its default SHELL /bin/false (the 'mcadde' account does not have login privilege). I see that the 'mcadde' account already exists, but its HOME directory is not the same as 'mcidas'. This should be changed. o cd ~mcidas sh ./mcinet7.6.sh install mcadde The mcinet7.6.sh shell script adds entries to /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services and then sends a HUP to inetd (so it will reread inetd.conf). You or someone else there that is NIS literate (something that I can not claim to be) needs to accomplish the equivalents of this on s418. 3) the ~mcidas/ directories need to be readable and writable by both the users 'ldm' and 'mcadde'. I will address LDM installation issues in separate emails. Tom
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