GMVA HOWTO

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    Enable autoFTP from the Field System

    Install NCFTP on the recorder machine

    Log into the Mark5 machine as user root

    apt-get install ncftp
    
    Enable autoftp in the Field System configuration

    On the Field System computer  (as user prog) go to /usr2/control

    edit sked.ctl and make sure that it contains the following uncommented line

    AutoFTP ON
    

    optionally you can also uncomment the disk2file_Dir directive to specify a special path under which the
    extracted file gets stored. This path must exist on the Mark5 recorder!

    e.g.:

    disk2file_Dir /data
    
    Install autoftp script

    On the Field System computer  (as user prog) go to /usr2/st/autoftp

    If the script does not exist you can download it.

    Edit the autoftp perl script and change the contents of the following variables:

    $mark5_node="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX";   
    $mark5_user="oper";
    $dest="ftp.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de";
    $dest_user="anonymous";
    $dest_pass="evlbi\@mpifr.de";
    $dest_dir="/incoming/geodesy";
    

    Replace XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX with the IP adress of your Mark5 recorder

    Then run:

    make
    
    Test FTP transfer

    Run a test schedule containing