Running Cshell - Observers Instructions

These procedures are for running cshell at the summit and remotely. To run cshell, you will need:

    1. A guest account.
    2. Have the IRTF staff create a VNC session for you.
    3. run the VNC Viewer
    4. Start the cshell XUI and VF(x user interface and ViewFits program).

1. Create you guest account
Instruction for creating guest accounts are located here: Guest Accounts

2. Start the VNC Server (session).
Contact the IRTF Telescope Operators or DayCrew and have them start a VNC session for you. They will give you the server display number N, use this number to access your VNC sesssion, for example N=1, "stefan.ifa.hawaii.edu:1".

3. Start the VNC Viewer
On the IRTF workstation, type of following command. (This example assumes you display number is 1 )

    > vncviewer stefan.ifa.hawaii.edu:1
Remote user can connect to the VNC session using their own VNC client software.

4. Start cshell's XUI and VF.

    From an xterm inside your VNC session, type
      stefan> cshellxui &
      stefan> vf &

4. Details on VNC operations for observers at the IRTF is found here: Using VNC with the IRTF

Cshell Startup Instructions - Staff

Staff instruction for establishing an VNC session: Using VNC with the IRTF
Another good page is CSHELL Shut-down, Start-up or Re-start

Here is a quick vnc summary:

    1. See what VNC session are active: vnc -show
    2. Start a VNC sesstion for user guest99: vnc -start guest99 cshell
    2. Kill a session: vnc -kill guest99 N where N is the display number.