Adminstrator Software Version Overrides

Most of the software titles installed in the SBGrid Suite have several versions available. Typically, we try to provide at least three versions of each software package, although very old or very new applications may have fewer versions.

There are two methods for site admins to configure version overrides using files placed in a /programs/local/conf/ directory.

Site-wide Overrides

A file named site.conf placed in /programs/local/conf will be read when any SBGrid shell is initialized from the installation.

Per-host Overrides

A file named <hostname.conf>, where <hostname> is the output of hostname -s will be read after the site.conf.

Precedence

There are three files that will be examined for version overrides during shell initialization. In order from lowest to highest precedence:

  • /programs/local/conf/site.conf
  • /programs/local/conf/<hostname.conf>
  • $HOME/.sbgrid.conf

The overrides are reported during shell initialization:

 Configuration options in effect for this shell:
  Variable             Setting         Configuration
   SPIDER_L             18.10           site 
   CNS_L                1.21            machine 
   CCP4_L               6.1.2           personal 

See this page for details on the override syntax.

 
software/admin_overrides.txt · Last modified: 2011/11/22 17:34 by Ben Eisenbraun
 
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