Hello, Pat,
Cc: Chandra-users
Re: How to determine which CalDB version you already have installed
Sounds like a fine idea to me.
See the web page http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/index.html under
"Determining your current CalDB version". There is a rather long, but
easily buffered/pasted "dmlist" command posted there that will address
this issue. Also, I have added the same command to the introduction
section of the "upgrade" README file. (Those using the "main" tar-ball
don't have to worry about this--it just clobbers everything and updates
the CalDB regardless of previous version.)
Here is the command for everyone's sake, which will work if you have
previously loaded CIAO:
unix% dmlist \
$CALDB/docs/chandra/caldb_version/caldb_version.fits"[cols CALDB_VER]" \
data,clean | tail -1
This would be a fine command to alias to something like "get_caldbver"
in a .cshrc file.
- Dale
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 08:48 -0500, Patrick Broos wrote:
> Dale,
>
> At our site (and many others I imagine) Chandra observers are the
> ones that get the announcements of CALDB upgrades, and that care
> about them, whereas the local system administrators are the ones that
> have the ability to do the upgrades. Thus, observers are often in
> the position of trying to figure out what version of CALDB is
> actually installed on their system (so they know whether to ask the
> admins to do something).
>
> Likewise, when a system administrator is asked to upgrade the CALDB,
> the instructions at http://cxc.harvard.edu/caldb/downloads/index.html
> start with a branch based on which CALDB version is currently installed.
>
> In both cases people generally do not know how to find out what CALDB
> version is currently installed at their site. In future releases,
> would you please include such instructions on the download web pages,
> and perhaps in the email announcement itself?
>
> Cheers,
> Patrick Broos, ACIS Team @PSU
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 12 2013 - 01:00:11 EST