multi-user changes to grass

From my archive!!

From grass-lists-owner@max.cecer.army.mil Wed Jan 20 05:05:32 1993
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From: Darrell McCauley <mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu>
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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@icil64.cilea.it (MINOJA@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@icil64.cilea.it

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I am looking for the geoeas manual(s) are they are the net somewhere? I
have had no luck with archie today...

thanks chris skelly