Hi Alessandra, Yeah, I remember running across this a long time ago (the binary used at SLAC on sun and on my machine actually comes from Tex, of all things). I thought Andy was going to change it to get rid of this funny dependency, but perhaps it fell through the cracks. Andy? Pete On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:35:46PM +0100, Alessandra Forti wrote: > ok I'll do that for now. > > thanks > > cheers > alessandra > > Yannick Patois wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Alessandra Forti a écrit : > >> StartXDR requires a binary called "access". > >> can anybody enlighten me on what it is? > > > > Seems that it just return if a file exists or not. > > > > I couldnt found anything close to that anywhere and created this: > > > > $ cat /usr/local/bin/access > > #!/bin/bash > > > > dir=$2 > > > > touch $dir/toto > > out=$? > > rm $dir/toto > > exit $out > > > > Pretty primitive, but will likely works for what we use it for. > > > > Yannick > > -- > ******************************************* > * Dr Alessandra Forti * > * Technical Coordinator - NorthGrid Tier2 * > * http://www.hep.man.ac.uk/u/aforti * > ******************************************* > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Elmer E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: +41 (22) 767-4644 Address: CERN Division PPE, Bat. 32 2C-14, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland -------------------------------------------------------------------------