IRAF on NICS-managed machines at UCO/Lick Observatory
IRAF is the
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility produced by
NOAO.
IRAF is installed on Linux and Solaris machines managed by
NICS.
Questions
Please send all questions about the local installation of IRAF at
UCO/Lick Observatory to the user iraf. That address is an alias
which will expand to the local maintainers of the IRAF installation.
Getting Started
The quickest way to get started using IRAF at UCO/Lick is to use the
command
lmkiraf
This command will prepare a user account to run IRAF by creating
a login directory in a default location.
The lmkiraf script provides advice during the setup
process.
Note that the advice includes description of some changes which must
be made manually by the user.
If the user account was previously configured to run an older version
of IRAF then the older configuration will be preserved intact under
a version-specific name.
Power users of IRAF may set up multiple
alternate login directories for any of the versions of IRAF
which have been supported at UCO/Lick.
Note that there have been some difficulties due to race issues
for user accounts where the iraf home directory is NFS-mounted from a
different machine. In such cases it is advisable to move the iraf
login directory onto a local disk.
External Packages
The UCO/Lick installation of IRAF includes a
number of
external packages.
More external packages can be added upon request.
PyRAF
The UCO/Lick installation of IRAF includes the Python-based
PyRAF
environment from
Space Telescope Science Institute.
The first step is to set up a user account to run the IRAF cl.
PyRAF should be accessible to anyone
after IRAF itself is set up and included in the command search path
of a user account.
iraf at ucolick dot org