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20050111: GARP config directory

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  • Subject: 20050111: GARP config directory
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:24:17 -0700
Michael,

Garp doesn't create local config directories, but you may have had a script
wrapper for a case study or other use that set the environmental variable
$GARP_PATH to be the user's or case studies own instead of that of the
$NAWIPS/ tree.

Steve Chiswell


>From: Michael Brennan <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200501111946.j0BJkOv2005106

>Hi Steve,
>
>We have an older version of GEMPAK set up by someone else (on Solaris) 
>that when you first use it creates a "config" directory in that 
>particular user's home directory.  This gives the user local control 
>over their Garp Defaults file, etc.  However, in the later versions I've 
>installed on Linux, this doesn't occur, and the Garp Defaults file 
>everyone uses resides in the $GARPHOME/config directory, which is owned 
>by root.  I'm unsure how to change this.  Is there a way to give users 
>local control over their Garp configuration to view case studies for 
>research, etc.?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>-- 
>Michael J. Brennan
>Graduate Research Assistant
>Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
>North Carolina State University
>Email: address@hidden
>Phone: (919) 515-1447
>
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