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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:
>
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>
> 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


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