From: Ben E. <be...@cr...> - 2009-01-22 18:08:20
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Hi Warren, > I am pleased to learn that MacPyMOL does in fact work over NFS! We're > obviously subject to reporter bias in terms of hearing mostly about > problems, not working solutions, but this certainly didn't work for us > previously (on Panther perhaps? Well before Leopard...) I went through every old PyMOL ticket we had in our database (48, to be exact), and I found out about the issues with older PyMOL versions and NFS. We integrate all the programs we support into a giant tcsh shell initialization file, and prior to August 2007, we had an alias like this; alias pymol 'open /path/to/pymol/directory' which made no sense to me at the time, so I changed it to: alias pymol 'open /path/to/pymol/MacPyMOL.app' It turns out that we had been advising people to run the 'pymol' alias, which would open the directory in Finder, then copy the .app to their hard drive to run it in order to workaround the aforementioned NFS issues. I made the change to call the .app directly without knowing the history there, and we have not gotten a single ticket on it regarding NFS issues since then. At the time, we were running an open source 0.99 build compiled by David Gohara. We have been using the incentive builds since we signed up for them. Anyway I feel pretty comfortable saying that MacPyMOL is working fine when run from an NFS volume these days. AFP may be a different matter though... :-) > Rereading your emails more carefully, I think I understand now what > you're angling at: remote command-line use of MacPyMOL. That shouldn't > work... > > Instead, you need a pure X11-based build of PyMOL. Okay, that makes sense. Actually, the ticket archives held a clue about this one as well. I believe that my user was using a pure-X11 build circa 0.97 that was also built by David. That ticket was from February 2005, so this was almost 4 years ago now. I'll install the 1.2 betas and try them out. Thanks for your help. -ben -- Ben Eisenbraun Structural Biology Grid Harvard Medical School http://sbgrid.org http://hms.harvard.edu |