Hi Pete, Yes, it fell through the cracks (see previous mail file). Andy On Fri, 26 May 2006, Peter Elmer wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >