.gislock

Fri May 12 08:00:00 EDT 1995

DUNN JEREMY SIMON (dunnj at samwise.colorado.edu) writes on 12 May 1995:
>> > I am trying to run the sgi binaries from the moon ftp site. But I 
>> > cannot execute grass4.1 due to the following error.

>> > grass4.1sg
>> > UX:sh (GIS.sh): ERROR: /home/shelob/dunnj/Grass4.1/etc: Cannot execute
>> > /home/shelob/dunnj/Grass4.1/etc/lock: /.gislock: Permission denied
>> > Unable to properly access /.gislock
>> > Please notify system personel.

check to see if $HOME is defined. More than likely you want to
create $HOME/.gislock, not /.gislock

Darrell

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James Darrell McCauley, PhD        http://soils.ecn.purdue.edu/~mccauley/
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