Ben, MacPyMOL has always had problems running off of a remote NFS drive -- we've never been able to figure out why, but it is clearly something to do with the magic behind Apple's application bundles, since ordinary X11 builds run just fine.
The workaround is to copy the MacPyMOL bundle onto a local drive (/tmp?) before running it. Can you have your user try that? Cheers, Warren -----Original Message----- From: Ben Eisenbraun [mailto:b...@crystal.harvard.edu] Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 7:31 AM To: Warren DeLano Cc: PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PyMOL] Command line mode on OS X 10.4 vs 10.5 Hi Warren, > /Applications/MacPyMOL.app/Contents/MacOS/MacPyMOL -qc > > seems to work on our Leopard machines. Is /programs on a shared drive > by any chance? Yes, it is. It's an NFS volume hosted on a linux server, so in addition to being a network volume, it's also case-sensitive. Some additional details: the use case is that my user has an Xserve that he ssh's into and runs jobs on without being logged on to the console. He recalls being able to do this with an older version of MacPyMOL and/or OS X. >From what I can see testing here, this doesn't work at all if you're not logged into the console. Is it supposed to? Thanks. -ben -- Ben Eisenbraun Structural Biology Grid Harvard Medical School http://sbgrid.org http://hms.harvard.edu
