In preparation to the SL6.3 upgrade (to be done BEFORE the upgrade):

1. make sure to have the most recent dfos tool versions installed; IMPORTANT: Do not install the new verisons of pet.py and utilPACK, as those tools contain new python interpreter line and will only work after the upgrade;

2. call the updated scoreHC for all HC reports, to fix a format bug in the the score html pages (the new firefox is less tolerant)

3. save the crontab via: crontab -l > myfile

4. terminate firefox before the hand-over

Handover muc0X to OTS for the system upgrade.

After you get the machine back:

1. before you initiate the crontab file again, please check for your $TMP_DIR to physically exist (by default it would disappear with a new OS!). If not, create it.
2. run calChecker -F once, in order to be sure that the $TMP_DIR/CALCHECK/PREVIOUS folder is filled properly, otherwise the incremental calls would fail or deliver junk
3. fgwrite.c: is used to create ancillary fits frames. On other muc machines it is available at:
   /scisoft/share/iraf/extern/fitsutil/bin.redhat/fgwrite.e
   while on muc09 it is in
   /scisoft/share/iraf/extern/fitsutil/bin.linux64/fgwrite.e

   include
   export FG_WRITE=/scisoft/share/iraf/extern/fitsutil/bin.linux64/fgwrite.e
   in the .qcrc and source it.

4. Python: in the new system python is delivered from a different place:
   was - /scisoft/bin/python or /qcdp/bin/python
   is - /opt/python/bin/python
   • Extend the PATH to

     export PATH=/opsw/util/python/bin:${PATH}:/opt/sybase/bin:/opt/msql2/bin/:/opt/python/bin/python

     in dfosCron,
     autoDaily,
     

   • use
     #! /opt/python/bin/python as the first line in
     dfosRLSmassage.py,
     pet.py,
     and in the python QC scripts; if you download now the new versions of pet.py and utilPack, the python call lines are already sorted out;
     

     NOTE, that dfosRLSmassage.py is used by calChecker, so it has to be modified before calChecker can be run.

   • issue with the python has_key (related to the pyFITS version); solution provided by Wolfgang;
     

     sed one-liner to massage python scripts for the has_key issue, in case it occurs within an "if" or "if not" statement
     cat qc_mstplt.py | grep has_key
     if proHDUs[catg_master][0].header.has_key(key):
     if not temp_HDU[0].header.has_key(key):
     if proHDUs[catg_master][0].header.has_key(param[1]):
     
     cat qc_mstplt.py | grep has_key | sed "s,\(if [not]*\)\(.*\)\(\.has_key(\)\([^)].*\)\([^)]*\)\().*\),\1 \4 in \2:,"
     if key in proHDUs[catg_master][0].header:
     if not key in temp_HDU[0].header:
     if param[1] in proHDUs[catg_master][0].header:
     

5. modify .esorex/esorex.rc for the new pipeline version
   

   NOTE, that there is only new version of the detmon recipe available -detmon-1.2.5.

6. install the saved crontab

7. modify the ganglia link to http://mucmp-new.hq.eso.org/ganglia/ in config.dfoMonitor
8. in case you use the "display" application; it is available at /usr/bin/display but for some reasons the command works only if you call it like '/usr/bin/display '.
   To fix it set in e.g. ~/.pecs/misc-all.ali the line
   alias display=/usr/bin/display

9. in case your qc scripts use gnuplot; gnuplot is no longer provided under /scisoft/bin;
   version 4.2 is under /user/bin and 4.6 is under /vlt/VLT2013/gnu/bin/

10. in case you experience problems with scoreQC check
    echo $LANG
    if this is set to C fine; if not
    export LANG=C
    in e.g. ~/.qcrc

11. from the experience of working with CRIRES and FORS2 on muc01 after the upgrade...
    if you have scisoft in your path be very careful; Isabelle noticed some core dumps while using /scisoft/bin/dfits; the conclusion is we should use /opt/qfits/bin/dfits ; I can confirm that in case of FORS2 it worked very well;