On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Ben Eisenbraun
Our local sysadmins moved everyone's home directory from /nfs/home/foo to /nfs/userdocs/home/foo, and it appears to have broken most people's PHENIX projects.
Uh-oh. (Doesn't this break CCP4i too? I took a look at my old grad school data and it looks like everything is using absolute paths there too - although perhaps since they're text files, it's easier to fix...)
Is there a straightforward way to fix this? Poking around in the ~/.phenix/project_db.pkl files, I can see the old paths, but I'm not exactly sure how to rewrite. My brute force attempt with sed was unsuccssful.
They're technically binary files (Python pickle format), so I doubt sed will do the job. I can write you a script to rewrite paths, but it's not a trivial problem. Migrating projects has been on the to-do list for a while and I'm close to getting it working, but I hadn't planned on anyone moving entire home directories like this. I don't suppose you can beg the sysadmins to add a symlink named /nfs/home? -Nat