Comments on GRASS-CD

[Andreas Holz]

Dear GRASS-users and programmers,

        in the following some informations for the users of
        the CD "Grass 4.1.5 for Linux".

        1) XGRASS destroyes /dev/tty if executed as root.

           XGRASS, e.g. XGMAPCALC is deleting /dev/tty on exit. You
           won't be able to open new xterms nor to login.

           DON`T RUN XGRASS OR XGRASS PROGRAMS AS USER ROOT !!!!!!!!

           If you are missing /dev/tty, please re-create it via
           MAKEDEV general in /dev.

           If You are not able to login anymore, You have to boot
           from the installation boot-disk, to mount the harddisks
           root-partition and to re-create /dev/tty (on harddisk)
           manually. How to create /dev/tty You can see in 
           the MAKEDEV script in /dev/MAKEDEV. 

        2) I'm very sorry, there are missing soft links from the
           grass4.1.5/etc directory on CD to the harddisk.

           There is a directory /usr/local/grass4.1/etc_linked on
           harddisk. There should be links from CD to this directory to
           be able to edir the GIS.sh, XGIS.sh or to modify or add
           digititer or printer drivers. 

          This is not possible in the current layout. Please link
          each file in the CD's grass4.1.5/etc directory to     
          /usr/local/grass4.1/etc, excepting the files You want to modify,
          which should reside on harddisk, or wait for a new 
          grassinstall or grassupdate script, which I'll release soon.


Greetings

        Andreas