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> From grass-lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil Wed Jan 20 05:05:32 1993
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> From: Darrell McCauley <mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu>
> Sender: mccauley at ecn.purdue.edu
> Sender: lists-owner at max.cecer.army.mil
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> In-Reply-To: <01GTPO6372W294DT5E at icil64.cilea.it>
> Subject: multi-user Configuration Setup
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> ask each user to do the following:
>
>    install -d ~/grass/data     # or something appropriate
>    cd ~/grass/data
>    foreach location (/mcae/grass.data/*)
>      if (-d $location) then
>        mkdir $location
>        cd $location
>        foreach mapset ($location/*)
>          if (-d $mapset) ln -s $mapset
>        end
>        cd ..
>      endif
>    end
>
> Then, when they run grass, have them put their own directory
> name when it asks for a DATABASE (e.g. /home/icil64/joe_user/grass/data).
>
> The set of csh commands given above untested, but I think that you
> can get the jist of what's going on. Try it out, package it up in a
> shell script, and have each new grass user run it (maybe you could
> even put a hook in GIS.sh to check for the existence of ~/.grassrc
> to do this... oh, one is already there. just modify it:
>
> |  if [ ! -f $GISRC ]
> |  then
>          set_up_stuff_for_icil64.csh # make users use their home dir for data
> |        cat $ETC/gis_intro
> |        echo ""
> |        echo "Hit RETURN to continue"
> |        read ans
> |  fi
> ).
>
> --Darrell
>
> MINOJA at icil64.cilea.it (MINOJA at icil64.cilea.it) writes on 19 Jan 93:
> >  Hello Grass User,
> >
> >  On my machine as root user I have installed grass4.0 using this
> >  SETUP configuration.
> >
> >  ARCH = Convex10.0
> >  GISBASE = /mcae/GRASS/Convex10.0
> >  UNIX_BIN = /mcae/GRASS/bin
> >  DEFAULT_DATABASE = /mcae/grass.data
> >  DEFAULT_LOCATION = spearfish
> >
> >
> >  This configuration is not good for me because every grass user may write
> >   own data into the disk /mcae.
> >
> >  I wish to configure SETUP in a such way so as my users for default write
> >   data into own home directory.
> >
> >  Note that into /mcae/grass.data I have the grass demo files and I wish
> >   that my users are able to read (read only!) this information.
> >
> >                            Thank You very much
> >
> >                                       Bruno
> >
>
>______________________________________________________________________________
> >Bruno Minoja
> >Cilea (Consorzio InterUniversitario Lombardo Elaborazione Automatica)
> >Via R. Sanzio 4
> >Segrate Milano Italia
> >E_MAIL : minoja at icil64.cilea.it
>
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