Troubleshooting guide

II.Starting FLAMINGOS
When you arrive at the 4-m telescope, you may have to bring up the FLAMINGOS windows and initialize the
system (it should have been done during the checkout night). Steps 1–6 of this procedure will hopefully only
need to be done once at the beginning of your run; however, you may need to repeat this process during the
course of your observing time if you get logged out, or if the system crashes.
The observer interface is from the tan console. There are three monitors, labeled (from left to right) 0.1, 0.0,
and 0.2. The setup procedure described below will utilize the center monitor for overall login and image
display, the lefthand monitor for FLAMINGOS control, and the righthand monitor for IRAF tasks.
The full startup procedure follows:
1. Log on to tan. The login is 4meter; the password ______________(taped to the edge of the monitor).
2. Once the desktop has come up:
Quit out of any automatically started windows.
On the middle monitor (tan:0.0), open either a terminal from the toolbar at the bottom of the screen or a
new xgterm by right clicking the mouse within the desktop, and selecting xgterm from the menu.
Type xhost +flmn-4m-1a to allow remote display to tan from flmn-4m-1a.
3. Using the xgterm, ssh into the FLAMINGOS control computer, hereafter known as flamingos1a, as
4mguest:
4meter@tan% ssh -X -l 4mguest flmn-4m-1a
password = ________
(See the FLAMINGOS binder of manuals for the password).
4. Start ds9 on tan's center monitor
4mguest@flmn-4m-1a{1} ds9 &
5. Set the display to tan's right monitor (tan:0.2), open an xgterm, and start IRAF:
4mguest@flmn-4m-1a{2} setenv DISPLAY tan:0.2
4mguest@flmn-4m-1a{3} xgterm -T IRAF_Flamingos -n IRAF_Flamingos &
In the xgterm you just opened start IRAF in the correct directory:
4mguest@flmn-4m-1a{4} cd ~; cd Iraf; cl
6. Move the cursor back to the xgterm on tan:0.0, set the display to tan's left monitor, open an xterm, and
initialize FLAMINGOS.
4mguest@flmn-4m-1a{5} setenv DISPLAY tan:0.1
4mguest@flmn-4m-1a{6} xterm -T FLAMINGOS -n FLAMINGOS &
Type all following FLAMINGOS commands within this xterm (appropriately titled FLAMINGOS).
FLAMINGOS@4-m, Ver. 2.34, 2006 Apr 04 Page 8 of 44