EIS Catalog Server: Skycat Configuration Guidelines

SkyCat uses a configuration file for the setup of the links to image, catalog and directory servers. The EIS Catalog Server Service consists of a directory server and the actual catalog server. In order to enable SkyCat to see the EIS catalog directory structure you have either to modify your SkyCat configuration file or download a new one.

• Novice users of SkyCat you should just download a new configuration file and place it under ~/.skycat/skycat.cfg

• If you already did some work with SkyCat you should probably go and modify your SkyCat configuration file which is located in ~/.skycat/skycat.cfg. Just load it into your prefered text-editor and add the following six lines (including blank lines before and after):
  

  serv_type:      directory
  long_name:      EIS Catalogs
  short_name:     EIS@eso
  url:            http://archive.eso.org:8080/eis/servers/eis_directory
  
  

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