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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 09:40:43 CST

Hi Lubos,
  Interesting, any particular reason you lack the /dev/tty device or
don't have write permission??? You're using Linux right? Which distribution?
(Its normally used to echo text to stdout...)

  John

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:48:17PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> hi!
>
> i've installed the msms software and tried to run it in vmd *the msms
> self-test works fine), but i receive only following error message:
>
> Info) Starting MSMS with: 'msms -no_area -socketPort 1357 > /dev/tty &'
> sh: /dev/tty: Permission denied
> Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
> Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
> Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
> Info) Waiting for MSMS server ...
> ERROR) Could not connect to MSMS server. Please check that the program
> 'msms' exists and is executable, or set the environment
> variableMSMSSERVER to point to the correct binary.
> Info) Could not compute MSMS surface
> Info) Done with MSMS surface.
>
> what can i do with this?
>
> regards,
> lubos
>
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