JObserve: Java Based Observe

JObserve is a rewrite of the older observe program for generating observing schedules for the VLA. More information can be found ​here

Installation

The current version of JObserve is 1.7.4 and was downloaded ​here. This version comes with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.4.2.

cdelacruz@io:/opt$ sudo mkdir -p jobserver/1.7.4
cdelacruz@io:/opt$ chown -R cdelacruz:cdelacruz jobserve
cdelacruz@io:/opt/jobserve/1.7.4$ tar -xvzf jobserve-1.7.4-linux.tgz
cdelacruz@io:/opt/jobserve/1.7.4/jobserve-1.7.4$ emacs Makefile(Set JO_HOME=/opt/jobserve/1.7.4/)
cdelacruz@io:/opt/jobserve/1.7.4/jobserve-1.7.4$ make config

cdelacruz@io:/opt/jobserve/1.7.4$ make config
rm -fr jobserve.sh
sed -e 's&XXXXX&'/opt/jobserve/1.7.4/'/&' jobserve.sh.tmp > jobserve.sh
chmod 755 jobserve.sh

Execute jobserve.sh to run jobserve

cdelacruz@io:/opt/jobserve/1.7.4$ sudo ln -s /opt/jobserve/current/jobserve.sh /usr/local/bin/jobserve
cdelacruz@io:/opt$ sudo chown -R root:root jobserve/