Managing Your Software Installation

The sbgrid-admin utility used to install the software has a few other uses. It includes built-in help:

 $ sbgrid-admin -h
sbgrid-admin: a tool for administering an SBGrid Software suite installation

Usage: sbgrid-admin [-chistu]

  -c Cron mode.  Used for automated updates of the software suite.
  -h Help message.
  -i Install the software suite on this machine.
  -r Regenerate sh/csh shell configuration files.
  -s Install the software branch for SGI IRIX.
  -t Test the configuration file.
  -u Force manual update of an existing installation.

The most commonly used option is -u to force a manual update. This will synchronize your local installation with the SBGrid master installation hosted at Harvard Medical School.

The SBGrid software configuration files use both static and dynamically generated files. The main shell initialization files, /programs/sbgrid.cshrc and /programs/sbgrid.shrc are static files, but the operating-specific configuration are dynamically generated and customized for the packages available at your site. sbgrid-admin -r will regenerate the branch-specific configuration files should you accidentally delete or alter them.