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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 05 2007 - 09:56:28 CST

Vlad,
  Thanks for the summary, I've added notes about this to the
VMD movie maker plugin documentation page so others will benefit
from your advice.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:48:54AM +0100, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Thanks for your threading on the povray issue... In the weekend I
> managed to make it work ... There was something to do with the
> permissions in the ~/.povray/3.6/povray.conf file. One needs to add
> lines read+write for every directory that you want to access if that
> directory is not in your home. By default, if you compile it as user
> only (without root priv)... povray 3.6 allows read+write only from your
> home dir, so as soon as one tries to run it on a network directory, it
> will fail ... Therefore the .conf file needs to be modified by
> introducing a line read+write with each network partition that one wants
> to use ...
>
> Thanks again
>
> Best
> vlad
>
>
>
> John Stone wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> > Is this behavior new to the Unix versions on POV-Ray 3.6.x?
> >I hadn't seen this with older versions I've compiled from
> >source on Linux or Solaris, so I'm wondering when they added it.
> >
> >Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 05:00:18PM -0500, Morizono, Hiroki wrote:
> >
> >
> >>The mac (unix commandline) version of povray will also throw the same
> >>error.
> >>Check also the read/write/execute permission on the directory where your
> >>xxx.pov files
> >>are, as well as looking at povray user manual.
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: owner-vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu on behalf of John Stone
> >>Sent: Sat 2/3/2007 1:54 AM
> >>To: Vlad Cojocaru
> >>Cc: VMD list
> >>Subject: Re: vmd-l: creating gif animation with povray
> >>
> >>
> >>Vlad,
> >> I vaguely recall having to do something similar when I was using
> >>POV-Ray to make movies, though in my case I think I managed to convince
> >>POV-Ray not to enforce any filesystem security. On the Windows version
> >>of POV-Ray, this was accomplished using the options described on the
> >>VMDMovie plugin documentation page:
> >> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
> >>
> >>I've never had to deal with it on Linux, but I assume that
> >>the procedure is similar.
> >>
> >> John Stone
> >> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >>
> >>On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:09:12AM +0100, Vlad Cojocaru wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Dear vmd users,
> >>>
> >>>I am trying to create a GIF animation (using the movie maker plugin)
> >>>using POV redering (povray). However, before the final step (when it
> >>>comes to convert the .pov files to .ppm images) I get the error below. I
> >>>tried modifying the ~/.povray/3.6/povray.conf file by introducing a line
> >>>"read+write = /dir ". However, this didnt help. Does anyone have any
> >>>idea how to fix this?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks
> >>>vlad
> >>>
> >>>Scene File Parser Initialization Error: Reading from
> >>>'/dir/movie/POV.0310.pov' is
> >>>not permitted. Check the configuration in
> >>>'/home/cojocavd/.povray/3.6/povray.c
> >>>onf'.
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
> >>>e-mail:Vlad.Cojocaru[at]eml-r.villa-bosch.de
> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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> Dr. Vlad Cojocaru
>
> EML Research gGmbH
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> 69118 Heidelberg
>
> Tel: ++49-6221-533266
> Fax: ++49-6221-533298
>
> e-mail:Vlad.Cojocaru[at]eml-r.villa-bosch.de
>
> http://projects.villa-bosch.de/mcm/people/cojocaru/
>
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