Re: to use ns in a shared directory

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@isi.edu>]

I have a perl script called dup for this. You can find it at
http://www.isi.edu/~haoboy/files/dup.tar.gz

Let me know if you have questions.

- Haobo

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Fusun Inanc wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have installed ns-allinone-2.1b5 on to my Sun Solaris 2.7 unix server.
> In my lab, three students are using ns for their projects. I cannot install 
> ns in three different directories because I don't have this much space in the 
> server. And also later on the number of students who use ns might increase .
> Instead we all have to use the same source of ns. 
> 
> For this purpose I created a common user in my unix system and installed ns in 
> to this user's home directory. and give permission to the group to use these 
> files. 
> 
> But this cause the problem. Everytime whenever one of us compiles ns, the 
> permission of some files is changed to that user as wrx and group permission is 
> gone. And whenever the other user wants to compile it s/he has problems like 
> permission denied...
> 
> How can I solve this problem.  Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Fusun Inanc
> 
>