| Re: IDL and NIS - cd? [message #2152] |
Tue, 07 June 1994 09:53  |
ralfu
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In article <1994Jun7.134315.4420@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>, knipp@ipi.uni-hannover.de (K Knipp) writes:
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|> For IDL 3.1.1 (sunos sparc) (Sun SparcStation 1) and NIS implemented
|> it works perfectly well, no matter on which directory it is started.
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|> Seems to me more to be a problem with IBM / AIX :-)
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It works perfectly well on our NFS/NIS-Cluster of several RS/6000
(AIX3.2.4 and all versions since 3.2) no matter on which directory
it is started.
This is definitely not a problem with IBM / AIX.
[Well, there is a minor problem that the lmstat command does not give
back the info of current users of the network license. The error is:
Feature usage info:
Users of idl: Cannot get users of idl: cannot connect to a license server
although the server is running. Anybody got a clue about what's going on
here -- or a RS6k installation where this works?]
- Ralf
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| Re: IDL and NIS - cd? [message #2157 is a reply to message #2152] |
Tue, 07 June 1994 06:43  |
knipp
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In article 115516@wpyx77.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de, kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Markus von Kienlin) writes:
> Hi IDL-folks,
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> we are running IDL 3.5.1 on an IBM RS6k/530h under AIX 3.2.5. Recently, we have installed yellow pages/NIS on our workstation cluster. All users now have their home-directory on only one workstation, which may be not the workstation running IDL. However, IDL seems to have a problem when the directory from which it is launched is only mounted by NIS(automount):
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> Giving the command: "cd, current=test" comes back with the error message:
> "% Unable to get working directory." This prevents execution of utilities like "pickfile". This only occurs when the keyword current is given.
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> Has anybody encountered this difficulty? Is this due to the symbolic links in the file system hirarchy across the network? Are there workarounds?
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> Please, mail your replys to kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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> Thanks and cheers,
> Markus
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For IDL 3.1.1 (sunos sparc) (Sun SparcStation 1) and NIS implemented
it works perfectly well, no matter on which directory it is started.
Seems to me more to be a problem with IBM / AIX :-)
Karlheinz
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| Re: IDL and NIS - cd? [message #2159 is a reply to message #2157] |
Tue, 07 June 1994 14:18 |
hahn
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In article <1994Jun7.115516@wpyx77.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Markus von Kienlin) writes:
> From: kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Markus von Kienlin)
> Subject: IDL and NIS - cd?
> Date: 7 Jun 1994 10:55:16 GMT
> Keywords: cd
> Hi IDL-folks,
> we are running IDL 3.5.1 on an IBM RS6k/530h under AIX 3.2.5. Recently, we have installed yellow pages/NIS on our workstation cluster. All users now have their home-directory on only one workstation, which may be not the workstation running IDL. However,
> IDL seems to have a problem when the directory from which it is launched is only mounted by NIS(automount):
I don't think this is a problem specific to an operating system or NIS. We
used NIS for a couple of month but migrated to afs (Andrew File System)
licenced from Transarc. This allows to share the same files between different
systems (rs6000, DEC AXP with OSF/1 and SGI) and export (by NFS) the afs-
files to other systems. (NFS does not allow to recursively export files).
Unfortunately, ILD needs write access to some files which is a kind of a
problem with afs because normal Unix file access bits are replaced by
access control list (similar to good old VMS). Thus some files are afs-links
to normal Unix files...
Maybe you should check your enviroment setting immediately before running IDL.
Your problem may be located there...
For each software product we supply a shell script named setup.<product> to
setup the environment expected by the program. Usually there is an optional
parameter to select different version. Calling setup.idl without any parameter
establishes the enviroment for the production version of idl, If the user calls
. setup.idl old
he/she gets version 3.1 rather than 3.5.1...
As we only support the Korn shell, I'll send our setup.idl upon request by
e-mail.
Hope, this helps ..............
Norbert Hahn
University at Darmstadt, Germany
Computing Center
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| Re: IDL and NIS - cd? [message #2339 is a reply to message #2152] |
Wed, 08 June 1994 05:01 |
Markus von Kienlin
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Subject: IDL and NIS - cd?
From: Markus von Kienlin, kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Date: 7 Jun 1994 10:55:16 GMT
In article <1994Jun7.115516@wpyx77.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Markus von
Kienlin, kienlin@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de writes:
<...>
Hi again, IDL-folks,
Let me be a little bit more specific about the problem with "cd" in IDL
that I described earlier in this group:
(a) the problem is not linked to the IDL environment variables which are
correctly defined in the script "setup.idl".
(b) the problem occurs giving the command "cd, current=some_variable",
but only when the current directory is temporarily mounted by the
NIS-function "automount". Then the error-message: "% Unable to get
working directory." comes up.
(c) this is independent from where IDL has been started: the "cd" to the
external directory may have been done under Unix before starting IDL, or
any time from within IDL.
(d) "cd, current=some_variable" works correctly if the current directory
is permanently mounted by NFS, or for any directory on the local host.
Once again our system configuration: IDL 3.5.1, IBM RS6000/530H under AIX
3.2.5.
Any hints or help would be welcome.
Thanks, Markus
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