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- From: robert@shangri-la.gatech.edu (Robert Viduya)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Pandora - alternate images?
- Message-ID: <68139@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 17:30:56 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.202831.10895@ohm.york.ac.uk> <pqo8988@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
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- >olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com, <pqo8988@zuni.esd.sgi.com>):
- > In <1992Sep13.202831.10895@ohm.york.ac.uk> lgt1@ohm.york.ac.uk (Laurence Tyler (Guest - CompServ)) writes:
- > | Now that I'm using the 'noiconlogin' option instead, the second
- > | problem I have come across is that there isn't a (documented) way
- > | to override the pandora image file name, which seems to be hard-coded
- > | as '/usr/demos/data/images/pandora.rgb'. Sadly, we have /usr/demos
- > | mounted on a file server to save disk space on the workstations, so
- > | all the workstations get the same picture (and even a symlink won't
- > | help). I would like them to be different.
- >
- > Can't be done, unfortunately, without using a binary editor on
- > the pandora executable.
-
- Actually, you don't need to mess with the binary. Create a symlink for
- /usr/demos/data/images/pandora.rgb on the file server to a file on a local
- disk drive on each machine. For example, each of our machines has a
- directory called /usr/local_disk which is guaranteed to be on a local disk
- drive on the each machine. If we wanted to have a different pandora image
- for each machine, we would create /usr/local_disk/pandora.rgb on each
- machine with the desired image for that machine and then, on the server,
- create the symlink /usr/demos/data/images/pandora.rgb to point to
- /usr/local_disk/pandora.rgb.
-
- I've not done this with pandora.rgb, but it should work. I've used it in
- the past to handle WaveFront's Advanced Visualizer's annoying habit of
- storing the software license key in the same directory as the software
- itself, making it difficult to NFS-serve the software to multiple
- workstations. This trick fixed that problem. Fortunately, the newer
- releases of the Advanced Visualizer have addressed the problem.
-
- robert
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