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Opened 18 years ago

#1087 new enhancement

Request to have default 'site.config' file created by default install.

Reported by: Michael Wood-Vasey Owned by: Paul Price
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: ippconfig Version: 2.5
Severity: minor Keywords:
Cc:

Description

While I understand that users should spend some time actually looking at the configuration files and setting up their own site.config file, it would be helpful if the default install produced a 'site.config' file (as is referenced by the default 'ipprc.config') so that at least running IPP commands doesn't immediately fail with messages like:

[wwoodvas@master src]$ psphot -file ~/workspace/sm050926/2/waa1.050926_0010.069_2.sw.fits test.phot
Error reading arguments

-> pmConfigFileRead (pmConfig.c:180): parameter is out-of-range

Error: String name is NULL or empty.

-> psphotArguments (psphotArguments.c:24): Problem in configure files

Can't read site configuration

While this seems obvious enough once you understand it, it took me about 30 minutes to figure this out.

This processes of customizing the site.config file and other files should also be explicitly described with sufficient examples to get something basically working in the INSTALL file in the source tree psconfig directory.

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