[d2n-analysis-talk] Common analyzer on d2n.jlab.org, CVS updated

[Brad Sawatzky]

I was talking a closer look, and I don't think this DB is the most
current version.  It is from the d2n_analysis_copy code dump that
Dave provided on Jan 25.  There are some emails around that same time
discussing updates to the DB files -- I don't think they got installed.

Dave/Matt:  Can one of you point me to a copy of a 'current' DB
directory?  I need one that is
  a) relatively current, and
  b) functionally complete (ie. no 'testing' changes), etc.

-- Brad

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Brad Sawatzky wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who worked on this.  I think Dave, in particular, did
> the lion's share of getting the new DB files integrated and working
> properly.
> 
> If you are running on d2n.jlab.org, please give this a shot:
> 
> 1) Make a copy of the updated replay directory (keep your old replay
>    directory as a back up for now).
>     % cp -a /usr/local/d2n_analysis/d2n-replay <your_path>
>     -!-> Be sure to update the symlinks to your ROOTfiles dir, for
>          example:
>     % cd d2n-replay/replay
>     % rm localROOT
>     % ln -s /data1/${USER} localROOT
> 
> 2) Update your environment variables
>     % source /usr/local/d2n_analysis/root-setup.sh
>    - Please do NOT use locally built copies of ROOT. Use the
>      JLab managed version as shown in root-setup.sh
> 
> 3) Now your config will be using:
>    - the analyzer in /usr/local/d2n_analysis/analyzer/
>    - the up-to-date DB files in /usr/local/d2n_analysis/d2n/DB/
> 
> Please read the attached README and CHANGELOG for additional detail,
> info on how to use StartType.pl to handle finer-grained DB changes, and
> some suggestions about running parallel jobs on d2n.jlab.org.
> 
> Let me know how it goes.
> 
> Note that last week's THaCherenkov patch that changes which hit in the
> multi-hit TDC gets used has /NOT/ been applied.  I need some feedback
> from Dave on whether it improves his situation.
> 
> 
> Lastly, the d2n module (with DB, etc) is finally updated in CVS.  If you
> are running on a machine /other than/ d2n.jlab.org then you may wish to
> grab it using the instructions here:
>   https://hallaweb.jlab.org/wiki/index.php/Building_the_Analyzer_and_BigBite_libs_from_CVS_(d2n)
> Note that you always need to be careful that you build these libraries
> against the analyzer and version of ROOT that you are using.  If you
> copy compiled libraries from one machine to another it will probably
> fail.  If you are using a local version of ROOT, it will probably fail.
> 
> -- Brad
> 
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