[easybuild] New to EasyBuild - problem installing

2015-10-21 Thread oau
Please let me introduce myself: My name is Oscar Au-Alvarez. I am the admin of the recently installed HPC at the University of Oriente (eastern Cuba). I heard of EasyBuild from Dieter Roefs who came to my university in a working visitit within VLIRUOS. With Dieter I realized that EasyBuild is what

Re: [easybuild] New to EasyBuild - problem installing

2015-10-21 Thread Pablo Escobar Lopez
Hola Oscar, installing scientific software as root is a non recommended practice that's why easybuild triggers an error and asks you not to do it. For testing you can use your standard account. What many easybuild users do once they use easybuild in production is having a dedicated user account in

Re: [easybuild] New to EasyBuild - problem installing

2015-10-22 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi, On Oct 21, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Pablo Escobar Lopez wrote: > What many easybuild users do once they use easybuild in production is having > a dedicated user account in the cluster which is used to manage the easybuild > installations. ...and you can even go to the extreme and dedicate one

Re: [easybuild] New to EasyBuild - problem installing

2015-10-22 Thread Fotis Georgatos
On Oct 21, 2015, at 3:03 PM, wrote: > My question is: Why root cannot bootstrap EasyBuild? I think there is a great response to this question: * because if you really mean to run it as root, you should be able to fix it ;-) F. -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/min