[GRASS-user] GRASS temporary files and removing mapsets?

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Folks:

I'm getting close to finishing up a generic code that sends any given
raster command to gridengine for parallel processing (I'll post it as
soon as its ready for testing), but I had a couple of quick question
on GRASS standards:

1) For a given mapset, is there a directory within it that is designed
for temporary, non-geospatial files (e.g. text parameter files)?
2) Is there an "official" way to remove a mapset from GRASS short of
rm -rf /pathto/mapset)?

Thanks! Would anyone be interested in testing out the code once its
done? If so, send me a message. You'll need to get gridengine
installed (or have access to a working gridengine server). I got it
installed in about 2 minutes on a debian system by just downloading
the binaries and running the install scripts that come with it (I had
NO luck getting the debian package via apt-get working, mind you).

--j

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Jonathan Greenberg wrote:

I'm getting close to finishing up a generic code that sends
any given raster command to gridengine for parallel processing
(I'll post it as soon as its ready for testing), but I had a

interesting..

couple of quick question on GRASS standards:

1) For a given mapset, is there a directory within it that
is designed for temporary, non-geospatial files (e.g. text
parameter files)?

see $MAPSET/.tmp/, G_tempfile(), and g.tempfile and perhaps a
python helper funtion too.

clean it up with $GISBASE/etc/clean_temp

2) Is there an "official" way to remove a mapset from GRASS
short of rm -rf /pathto/mapset)?

No. (the startup gui has a button to do it, but I guess you
mean something scriptable)

Thanks! Would anyone be interested in testing out the
code once its done? If so, send me a message. You'll need to
get gridengine installed (or have access to a working
gridengine server). I got it installed in about 2 minutes on
a debian system by just downloading the binaries and running
the install scripts that come with it (I had
NO luck getting the debian package via apt-get working,
mind you).

what version of debian? is there a deb bug #?

Hamish

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On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Greenberg
<greenberg@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

Folks:

I'm getting close to finishing up a generic code that sends any given
raster command to gridengine for parallel processing (I'll post it as
soon as its ready for testing),

great - please consider to add findings also to

http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Parallel_GRASS_jobs#Grid_Engine

I am interested to test your approach, Grid Engine is installed and in
GRASS production
here :slight_smile:

Best
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