error on install, cl command doesn’t work

Guest wrote on Jun 11, 2007

Hi,
I successfully installed IRAF today and was able to make a login.cl
file, but i went to run the command cl, the terminal says

/iraf/iraf/bin.linux/cl.e: Command not found.

I looked through the FAQs, but couldn't find any documentation on this
problem.

Thanks,

Alex Hagen

Research Assistant to Prof. Randy Phelps, Ph.D.
California State University at Sacramento

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H.J. van Heerden wrote on Jun 11, 2007

Hi

Check that you are in the correct login dir. Then do a mkiraf. If it still does not want to find cl.e, check that the links to the cl.e file is correct. Or just rerun the IRAF install script.

Hope this helps

Regards
Pat

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jun 11, 2007

First verify that the /iraf/iraf/bin.linux/cl.e file does actually exist as the correct path on your machine. If you can login through the 'iraf' account and not your own then it may be that the default umask for your system has restricted permissions somewhere in the path, e.g. do an 'ls -lad" on /iraf, /iraf/iraf, etc to be sure it has world read/execute permissions. Normally this would also prevent you from finding the 'cl' command as well but is worth checking.

Note the 'linux' architecture is for systems other than Redhat/Fedora, having $IRAFARCH defined incorrectly in your environment could also be a problem. If you still have problems please post your linux distribution and the iraf version you're trying to install.

Cheers,
-Mike

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