Phenix file organization
To the Phenix gurus, I am in the midst of reorganizing our little Mac computer cluster, and will have a mixed collection of machines with OS 10.6.8 or 10.7.1. While the reorganization is going fine for the most part, I am having a little trouble getting Phenix to work on one machine. The problem is integrating a machine (a MacPro) into the cluster with users having different UIDs from their NIS accounts on the rest of the cluster. Thus, the NIS UID leads to not only a different UID for the user, but a different account (and therefore a different "home" directory) name. Simply changing ownership of the user's directories and files globally in OS 10.6.8 leads to Phenix choking at some stage when used under the NIS UID, but without an informative error message. Things go on fine when used under the old local UID and user name. So my question is does Phenix store the absolute paths in its various project indices? Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks, Michael **************************************************************** R. Michael Garavito, Ph.D. Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 513 Biochemistry Bldg. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824-1319 Office: (517) 355-9724 Lab: (517) 353-9125 FAX: (517) 353-9334 Email: [email protected] ****************************************************************
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:51 AM, R.M. Garavito
So my question is does Phenix store the absolute paths in its various project indices?
Yes. Fixing this is on my to-do list (hopefully it will happen before we release version 1.7.3), but I can pretty much guarantee that whatever I end up doing will not be a perfect solution - there are simply too many places where absolute paths are used and it is not as simple as substituting "$PROJECT_DIR" in all of the various parameter files. I don't think there is an easy fix for your problem anyway; in my experience, it is always less trouble to fix the UIDs on the computer being added to the collective than it is debugging the many issues (not just in Phenix) that will arise if your users have multiple identities. -Nat
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