[Axiom-developer] Re: AXIOM issues

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Clifton,

>I'm having a good bit of trouble running Axiom at work.  The problem
>involves the way I access our Linux machines.  We have a program called
>LSF (Load Sharing Facility) to which we submit jobs.  The program then
>finds an available machine and the job is run on that machine.  This
>helps to avoid having any one machine overloaded due to too many jobs
>being run on that machine.  As a result, I cannot directly log on to a
>Linux machine and can only access Axiom via LSF.
>
>Here's my problem:  when I run Axiom I get the following error message
>
>clef trying to execvp its argument: No such file or directory
>Process --> /usr/local/axiom/mnt/linux/bin/AXIOMsys
>
>The program then crashes.  Ever seen this before?  It looks like $AXIOM
>is hardwired into the source code somewhere.  (I may be having the same
>problem on my home computer because the clef editor doesn't work when I
>run Axiom on that machine.)

>The problem I described in my last note is intermittant.  Sometimes the
>error message appears and the program crashes, sometimes there is no
>error message and the program runs without any problems.


It appears that $AXIOM is not being set properly every time.
axiom is actually a shell script that lives in $AXIOM/bin.
You can modify it to echo $AXIOM and see if it differs on each run.
What .bashrc does LSF execute?

Tim