Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: foxs@zircon.physics.orst.edu (Sean Fox)
Subject: (?) HeNCE paths...
Organization: OregonStateUniversity
Date: 22 Feb 1995 22:27:32 GMT
Message-ID: <3igdok$lis@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>

	I am looking for advice on setting up HeNCE for a large number of users.
I have centralized my pvm files in /usr/local/pvm3, and with appropriate 
PVM_ROOT variables set everything works fine.  I'd like to make HeNCE available
to a number of users and am looking for a way to get around the 
"requirement"  (at least in the copy of HeNCE I grabbed from netlib the other day) that all HeNCE and pvm files be located in $(HOME)/pvm3.  The obvious 
solution is a softlink from everyone's $(HOME)/pvm3 to the central 
/usr/local/pvm3 directory.  However, that would preclude individuals from 
keeping their own executables in $(HOME)/pvm3 since it would be a public 
directory.  Not a big deal, except that much of the sample pvm code and documentation assumes such a directory is available.   Since most 
of the users will be UNIX neophytes using pvm as part of a class, I'd like things to work as much as possible like the docs and examples says it should--each user should have their own $(HOME)/pvm3 directory in which to keep their executables.
	Any suggestions how to solve this problem, other than the obvious solution of keeping a complete copy of HeNCE and pvm under everyone's home directory? (Not a real space effcient solution..)  Any easy fixes to HeNCE to make it look somewhere other than $(HOME)/pvm3?  I'm sure I'm not the first person to run into this problem, how have other people solved it?

thanks for any input,
Sean Fox
foxs@physics.orst.edu    


