Re: Re: managing version 6 in a locked-down environment
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- Subject: [mg78520] Re: [mg78452] Re: managing version 6 in a locked-down environment
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 05:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I agree, and for the reasons stated, that in a multi-user environment such as I described in my original posting (student lab), having paclets saved in $UserBaseDirectory is not a satisfactory solution. Albert wrote: > Hi, > >> As long as you allow writing to $UserBaseDirectory, pretty much any variant of >> the system you're proposing should work fine. >> >> All of the paclet updates in shipping systems are saved in $UserBaseDirectory, >> and a mapping system is in place to use the $UserBaseDirectory versions of these >> files in preference to the ones in the installation directory. If >> $UserBaseDirectory is wiped clean, then the system will start downloading >> updates from scratch. Otherwise, the updates will be preserved, even if >> Mathematica is reinstalled. Nothing is ever overwritten in the installation >> directory. > > Is there any means to explicitly control where these automatically > downloaded files will go? I think that this would be what I would want > if I'd be managing a machine where many different users use Mathematica. > At least after I found that I am wasting backup space and time for the > paclet data which resides as an identical copy in each users home > directory and would even be updated automatically just in case. Since in > such an environment the users home directories most probably will be > served over the local area network, such a setup will also add > unnecessary traffic and delays (not mainly for the download, but each > time one of the paclets is called...). Or am I misunderstandig how all > this works? > >> Mathematica has long been designed to work well on systems which have the >> installation directory totally locked down. -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- From: Albert <awnl@arcor.net>
- Re: managing version 6 in a locked-down environment