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Please help me with this error

Guest wrote on Dec 12, 2005

ERROR: invalid $iraf value (home/iraf/)

*** The iraf directory tree set by your environment variable, $iraf
*** is not generally readable. This will prevent most users from
*** being able to read iraf files, especially the binaries!

*** Please reset the permissions on the tree and try again...

Thanks

Christina Lirot

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Guest wrote on Dec 12, 2005

Hi Christina,

> ERROR: invalid $iraf value (home/iraf/)
>
> *** The iraf directory tree set by your environment variable, $iraf
> *** is not generally readable. This will prevent most users from
> *** being able to read iraf files, especially the binaries!
>
> *** Please reset the permissions on the tree and try again...

The message means there is probably a permissions problem on the
/home/iraf directory, e.g. it was created by root and isn't readable by
anyone else. To change the permissions use 'chmod', e.g.

chmod 755 /home/iraf

will grant the proper permissions on the directory. Do this as root if
that's who owns the files, otherwise as the owner. Note the
subdirectories may be similarly affected, use the command

chmod -R g+r,o+r /home/iraf

to recursively grant read permission to the directory tree.

Cheers,
Mike Fitzpatrick

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