ST Grants Management System Shared Unix/Linux Installations

Notes on Shared Installations on Unix/Linux systems

The InstallAnywhere and PowerUpdate systems do not support shared installs, and the PowerUpdate service assumes that individual users have write access to the directories where STGMS is installed.

To install STGMS under Solaris or Linux on a file system where the user does not have write access, a system administrator can modify which program is actually executed by the user when invoking STGMS.

By default, the installer creates a symbolic link to the PowerUpdate client. For example,

stgms -> /usr/local/readonly/filesystem/STGMS/update

This forces the user to execute the update program, which checks for new STGMS updates and then invokes the STGMS application. Change this link to

stgms -> /usr/local/readonly/filesystem/STGMS/STGMS

This will allow users to execute STGMS directly rather than passing thru the update check.

When the STGMS software is updated at STScI, the users will notified via a dialog box that their system administrator will need to perform an update before they can use STGMS.

The system administrator must run the

STGMS/update

program which will present the usual update dialog. Until the update is performed, users will be unable to use STGMS.

System administrators using shared installs may want to join the stgms external mailing list. Please send a message with the word "subscribe" in the body (not the Subject line) of the message to stgms_external_users-request@stsci.edu to be added to the list.