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Hi,I am running daophot inside iraf on my macbook pro.
I have noticed that I am not able to display the psf image that I obtain running the task "psf ". If I type "display psf.fits" I get:ERROR: Abnormal termination of child process 'bin$x_tv.e'and if I do imstat psf.fitsI get ERROR: Illegal file name template
Did anyone ever get the same problem?

An 'abnormal termination' sometimes mean the binary is corrupted or can't be run on the machine for some other reason (e.g. a missing shared library). The host error message is often more informative, try executing the x_tv.e binary directly (e.g. with "cl> !/iraf/iraf/bin.macintel/x_tv.e") and post the error message. The imstat message might be related, is this the V2.13 port from this site or some other distribution ?-Mike

If I type cl > !/iraf/iraf/bin.macintel/x_tv.eI getERROR: cannot open `!/iraf/iraf/bin.macintel/x_tv.e' for writing

Try executing the same command outside of the CL, I suspect you'll get a 'permission denied' message. This may mean that either the permissions on the binaries are wrong (e.g. missing an execute bit), or that some directory in the path leading to it isn't readable (e.g. try 'ls -lad /iraf /iraf/iraf /iraf/iraf/bin.macintel" and be sure they are all readable).-Mike

If I give outside iraf the command/scisoft/all/packages/iraf/iraf/bin.macintel/x_tv.eI get the prompt >but no messages.For all the directories iraf/ iraf/iraf and iraf/iraf/bin.macintel/
the permissions are rwxr-xr-x I forgot to say that I am using a bash shell, if the information can be of any help.

The '>' prompt means the binary started normally (type 'bye' to exit). I did notice though that you used the /scisoft path, does it make a difference whether you explicitly reference /iraf/iraf/...... instead? You can use the PRCACHE command to start a binary without executing any tasks, i.e. it just puts the binary in the process cache. If you "cl> prcache display" do you see the same abnormal termination message or just when you try to run the task? Is there an ximtool/ds9 running at the time and/or does it disappear?The bash shell shouldn't normally matter but I've heard reports of weirdities using their setup scripts. Key environment variables are $iraf and $IRAFARCH, and for image display $IMTDEV if it exists at all. If you didn't run the iraf install script, only the scisoft one, you might consider doing that and logging in through the normal 'cl' command to see if it makes a difference. AFAIK, scisoft just repackages the binaries from this site, and we haven't had any similar problems reported with those.Cheers,
-Mike