Bill-
I have a variety of systems here, running Solaris 2.6/Vnmr 6.1B and in
the process of being upgraded to Ultra5s running Solaris 7/Vnmr6.1C.
In all cases, vnmr is installed in /export/home/vnmr, and the vnmr1 account
is in /export/home/vnmr1.
User accounts exist on one of 7 different machines, generically in a
directory /export/home<x>/<group>/<user>
home<x> is home1, home2, .... depending on how many different drives I
have installed. /export/home tends to be the residual (s7) on the boot drive.
<group> is a subdirectory following research group lines. I use different
GID values, so groups can share data without sharing to world.
<user> is the user's login name.
On all machines, the /export/home<x>/<group> directories are shared (/etc/dfs/
dfstab) and the automounter is used to mount them when and where necessary.
The automounter works well, avoids problems with stale NFS file handles, and
copes well with systems being rebooted.
One Caveat: If users are to use one account on several spectrometers, as we
do here, there is a conflict with the global file. It needs to be specific
for the spectrometer that is being run. I have moved /vnmr/bin/vn to vn.exe
and added a wrapper script vn that copies global.<nodename> to global, runs
vn.exe, and then copies global to global.<nodename> when done. It is all
transparent to the user, and all of his data is in one account.
Hope this helps.
Steve
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Received on Tue Apr 03 2001 - 14:16:13 MST