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>From: "Fingerhut, William A" <address@hidden> >Organization: Lyndon State >Keywords: 200207191535.g6JFZa920941 McIDAS-X XCD REDIRECT Bill, >I don't see anything wrong with MCPATH, but I am not an expert. The environment variable settings you sent along look good to me as well. This makes the creation of GROUPS.DAT and COUNTRY.DAT in ~mcidas/data all the more bewildering. If there is no REDIRECTion in place, a file should get written to the first writable directory in a user's MCPATH. Since you noted that there is no REDIRECTion for either of the files in question, them getting created in ~mcidas/data/ instead of ~mcidas/workdata would mean that your ~mcidas/workdata is not writable by you. This would make no sense at all. >Mcidas's environment is as follows: > >fingerhutb@foxfire:~> su - mcidas >Password: Hmm... Perhaps what may be going on is that you became 'mcidas' to work on the installation using a 'su mcidas' instead of an 'su - mcidas'? Just grasping at straws here... >[mcidas@foxfire ~]$ env | sort >DISPLAY=:12.0 >HOME=/home/mcidas >HOST=foxfire.lsc.vsc.edu >HOSTNAME=foxfire.lsc.vsc.edu >HOSTTYPE=i386-linux >LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib >LOGNAME=mcidas >MCCOMPRESS=TRUE >MCDATA=/home/mcidas/workdata >MCGUI=/home/mcidas/bin >MCHOME=/home/mcidas >MCPATH=/home/mcidas/workdata:/home/mcidas/data:/home/mcidas/help >MCTABLE_READ=/home/mcidas/workdata/MCTABLE.TXT;/home/mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT >MCTABLE_WRITE=/home/mcidas/data/ADDESITE.TXT >McINST_ROOT=/home/mcidas >OSTYPE=linux >PATH=/home/mcidas/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11 >SHELL=/bin/tcsh >USER=mcidas (I deleted environment variables that were not pertinent.) >Do you see anything wrong here ? No, that what is puzzling. >I will ask Steven about you logging in. That may be the most >efficient route to go. I'll let you know soon. Yes, I think that this would be the quickest way for me to figure out what the problem is. Tom