On Dec 8, 2007 5:54 PM, wdbragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right now I have it as a symlink > > sager:/# ls -la /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-12-08 13:10 /etc/rc2.d/S99startnotebook > -> ../init.d/startnotebook > > and after I boot, here are the contents of nohup.out > > The notebook files are stored in: //.sage//sage_notebook > > > > Please choose a new password for the SAGE Notebook 'admin' user. > Do _not_ choose a stupid password, since anybody who could guess your > password > and connect to your machine could access or delete your files. > NOTE: Only the md5 hash of the password you type is stored by SAGE. > You can change your password by typing notebook(reset=True). > > > > sage: Error running notebook.py using Python > > > So, the two interesting revelations .... the .sage directory being > used is in / !!!!!! > What is going on there .... I really expected it to be in either / > root or /home/sage1 > And, because it is a new directory, it wants a new admin password and > that is why > this thing won't run.
It's good that you figured that out. It must be that the environment variable $HOME isn't set when you run the startup script. In any case, you can specify which directory the notebook server should use. Just do sage: notebook(dir="/absolute/path/to/sage_notebook", ...) William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---