------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 13:37:43 -0600 (CST) From: Steven Ludtke <stevel@blake.3dem.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu> X-X-Sender: stevel@id.3dem.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu Reply-To: sludtke@bcm.tmc.edu To: Thomas Goddard <goddard@cgl.ucsf.EDU> Subject: Re: Chimera at NCMI In-Reply-To: <200211251932.gAPJWPdN690278@adenine.cgl.ucsf.edu> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Filter-Version: 1.9 (cgl.ucsf.edu) On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Thomas Goddard wrote:

I don't understand why the installer failed when installing in /home/stevel/chimera. I just tried the linux installer from the web in my home directory and it worked. If it works as root for you, that seems to indicate it is a permissions problem. Can you send me the permissions on your home directory, "ls -l /home/stevel"? It should also work if you create the chimera directory first. I tested that and it also worked. The installer no longer removes an old Chimera. If you try to install where a Chimera already exists, it will ask you to move it or delete it yourself (from another shell) before proceeding.

Found the problem. Stupidity on my part (as ususal). One machine uses /homes/stevel, the other uses /home/stevel, and I got them backwards.

I agree that the web page should say next to the download link the date and version of the last release. Currently you have to follow the release notes link from the home page to check this. If you already have Chimera running, the Help/Software Updates menu entry will tell you if you have the most recent version.

Good tip.

The Puppet extension for remote controlling chimera uses the Tcl socket command to listen for socket connections. When a new connection is made a Tcl event appears in the event loop. I couldn't get that behaviour with the Python socket module, and I didn't try a separate thread. Using Tcl socket worked ok, but I don't know if it handles unix domain sockets. I was using INET domain sockets and Puppet just checks that the connection is being made from the machine chimera is running on. That is obviously inadequate security on a multi-user machine. The Puppet extension is not distributed with Chimera because of this security problem. I think I gave you a copy several months ago. If you can't find it, I can provide you another copy of the Puppet Python code.

Yeah, I've still got it. I sort of wanted to avoid doing any explicit TCL stuff. I hadn't checked to see how you handle that. Anyway, that answers my question Thx, and sorry to waste your time on the installer thing... - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steven Ludtke, PhD | Baylor College of Medicine sludtke@bcm.tmc.edu | Co-Director stevel@alumni.caltech.edu | National Center For Macromolecular Imaging V: (713)798-6989 | Dept of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. instant messenger: sludtke42 | * Those who do ARE * http://ncmi.bcm.tmc.edu/~stevel | The converse also holds ------- End of forwarded message -------