Hi, On 5 Sep 2006, at 22:18, Drew wrote: > I have a couple questions about run bedpost with multiple processors > > 1) On your website it says > FSLMACHINELIST: a list of machines on which bedpost should be run. > Each > machine can be included more than once to make use of multiple > processor > machines. > - Do I have to include my local machine? > i.e. If I'm logged into A and I want to run bedpost on A and B, do > I have to > put MACHINELIST="A B" or MACHINELIST="B"? The former I think. > 2) What some of the permissions etc pitfalls that I could be > encountering. > I'm getting these messages when I try to run it: > > ----- > > copying files to bedpost directory > processing data on hosts: epoch > touch: creating > `/home/dmorris/data/dti/me/F6.bedpost/logs/pid_32103/ > epoch.sickkids.ca_fdt_16569': > Permission denied > /usr/local/fsl/bin/bedpost_proc: line 88: > /home/dmorris/data/dti/me/F6.bedpost/logs/.0000: No such file or > directory > cat: /home/dmorris/data/dti/me/F6.bedpost/logs/.0000: No such file > or directory > /usr/local/fsl/bin/bedpost_proc: line 90: [: > epoch.sickkids.ca_16569: unary > operator expected > > --- > > epoch is the remote machine > I have set up mounts and symbolic links so that the local directory > (/home/dmorris/data...) is also a legitimate directory on the > remote machine Sounds like you don't have write permission in that output directory, at least when accessing via the auto-login call. You should probably get your sysadmin to sort out the remote call syntax. Cheers, Steve. > > > Any insights would be good to have. > > Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Stephen M. Smith, Professor of Biomedical Engineering Associate Director, Oxford University FMRIB Centre FMRIB, JR Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK +44 (0) 1865 222726 (fax 222717) [log in to unmask] http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---