Yep. I put all specialty lab software tools on a file server and mount it on all workstations as /usr/local/xtal, a suggestion I think I learned...here. There are few programs that can't be served this way. I only have to update the server.
Roger Rowlett On Apr 11, 2013 1:42 PM, "Ethan Merritt" <merr...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:22:59 am Antony Oliver wrote: > > Eugene - that's great. I too run a small suite of Macs (12) and was > trying to find a practical way of updating all those machines remotely. The > command line version of CCP4um will be very useful. > > Another option for a set of machines in the same network is to install a > single > master copy of ccp4 on one machine exported to the others via NFS, and > have all the > machines run it from there. Then you only need to update one copy. > Works fine for me. > > Ethan > > > > > > > Many thanks. > > > > Tony. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On 11 Apr 2013, at 18:19, "eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk" < > eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote: > > > > > Dear Dale, > > > > > > From next CCP4 release (due soon), ccp4um will be runnable from > command line in automatic, non-graphical mode, fully cronable. I hope that > that will give you what you want. "--check-silent" is a special option for > ccp4i, it only checks for new updates but do not install them. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > > > Eugene > > > > > > > > > On 11 Apr 2013, at 18:10, Dale Tronrud wrote: > > > > > >> FYI > > >> > > >> I have a small herd of computers here and find it cumbersome to ssh > > >> to each and fire up ccp4i just to update the systems. ccp4i takes a > > >> while to draw all those boxes (particularly over ssh) and leaves files > > >> behind in my disk areas on computers that I'm not likely to, > personally, > > >> run crystallographic computations. I much prefer to simply run ccp4um > > >> from the command line. > > >> > > >> In fact, I would rather put it in cron and forget about it -- and > > >> I expect that is what --check-silent is for. The usage statement, > > >> however, doesn't explicitly say that this installs the new updates it > > >> finds. I'll have to experiment a bit. > > >> > > >> Dale Tronrud > > >> > > >> On 04/11/2013 05:17 AM, eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: > > >>> Sorry that this was unclear. We assume that updater is used > primarily from ccp4i, where nothing changed (and why it should be used from > command line at all ?:)). The name was changed because it is reserved in > Windows, which caused lots of troubles. Now it will stay as is. > > >>> > > >>> Eugene > > >>> > > >>> On 11 Apr 2013, at 05:16, James Stroud wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On Apr 10, 2013, at 9:30 PM, <eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto: > eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk>> <eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk<mailto: > eugene.krissi...@stfc.ac.uk>> wrote: > > >>> > > >>> No, it got renamed to ccp4um :) That should have been written in > update descriptions, was it not? > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> There was only one mention of "ccp4um" that I could find in all > update descriptions that I found (6.3.0-020). I only figured out what > information was trying to be communicated because of your message (see > attachment). > > >>> > > >>> James > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> <um-what.png> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On 11 Apr 2013, at 03:54, James Stroud wrote: > > >>> > > >>> Hello All, > > >>> > > >>> I downloaded a crispy new version of CCP4 and ran update until the > update update script disappeared. Is the reason that CCP4 has reached its > final update? > > >>> > > >>> James > > > > > > > > > > -- > Ethan A Merritt > Biomolecular Structure Center, K-428 Health Sciences Bldg > University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742 >
