{"id":302,"date":"2006-02-28T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vacanteyes.com\/blog\/2006_02_302"},"modified":"2007-09-11T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T21:16:58","slug":"some-notes-on-running-mathematica-remotely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/some-notes-on-running-mathematica-remotely\/","title":{"rendered":"Some notes on Running Mathematica Remotely"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vacanteyes.com\/blog\/images\/academic\/mathematica.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"117\" alt=\"Mathematica\" title=\"Mathematica\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I was totally new to Unix command lines and Mathematica, and some of these errors cost me a huge amount of time to finally solve. I have a bad habit that I don&#8217;t take notes for these &#8220;small&#8221; tricks. Then I have to repeat the searching process the next time I need them-_-. So I guess it&#8217;s a good idea for me to record them here for future use, aslo for others who have the same problems. <\/p>\n<p>These notes are for X11 under OS X, but other platforms should be similar.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To avoid BadWindows errors, use -Y option instead of -X.<br \/>\n                <code>ssh -Y -l user host<\/code><br \/>\nOr you can edit \/etc\/ssh_config, and add the following two lines ot it:<br \/>\n<code>ForwardX11 yes<br \/>\n           ForwardX11Trusted yes<\/code><br \/>\nThe -X option is equivalent to the first line. The -Y option is equivalent to both. <\/li>\n<li>To prevent Can&#8217;t Open Display errors, type following lines before attempting to run Mathematica:\n<ul>\n<li>On the local machine: <code>xhost +remotemachinename<\/code><\/li>\n<li>On the remote machine: <code>setenv DISPLAY localmachinename:0<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t know your localmachinename or ip address, type the command &#8220;who&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>To prevent the Fonts error, there&#8217;re two methods you can use:\n<ul>\n<li>You can set a font server by typing the command:<br \/>\n<code>xset fp+ tcp\/fontserver:7100<\/code><br \/>\nIf you don&#8217;t want to type this command every time you run Mathematica, you can edit the original version of &#8220;xinitrc&#8221; at \/etc\/X11\/xinit\/xinitrc or copy it to your home directory as an invisible file &#8220;.xinitrc&#8221; and edit that copy.<br \/>\nCopy command: <code>cp \/etc\/X11\/xinit\/xinitrc ~\/.xinitrc<\/code><br \/>\nUse &#8220;pico&#8221; to edit: <code>pico .xinitrc<\/code><br \/>\nAdd these two lines:<br \/>\n<code>xset fp+ tcp\/fontserver:7100<br \/>\nxset fp rehash<\/code><br \/>\nIf you get a &#8220;Permission Denied&#8221; error, use command &#8220;chmod&#8221; to change the permission. For example, if you want to add writing permission to users, type<br \/>\n<code>chmod u+w file<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Copy the font files to your local machine, repeat the steps to edit .xinitrc, the lines you need to add will be:<br \/>\n<code>xset fp+ \/fontpath<br \/>\nxset fp rehash<\/code>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Some basic unix commands:\n<ul>\n<li><code>ls [-l] [-a]<\/code>: To list the conents fo a directory.<\/li>\n<li><code>mkdir<\/code>: To create a new directory.<\/li>\n<li><code>cp data1 data2<\/code>: To create a copy of &#8220;data1&#8221; named &#8220;data2&#8221;.<br \/>\n                <code>mv data1 data1.old<\/code>: To rename a file &#8220;data1&#8221; to &#8220;data1.old&#8221;.<br \/>\n               <code>mv data1 subdir<\/code>: To move file &#8220;data1&#8221; into subdirectory &#8220;subdir&#8221;.<br \/>\n               <code>rm data1<\/code>: To delete file &#8220;data1&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><code>more<\/code>: to view the content of a file.<\/li>\n<li><code>pico<\/code> or <code>vi<\/code>: to edit a file.<\/li>\n<li>Email:\n<ul>\n<li><code>pine<\/code>: email client.<\/li>\n<li>For Dartmouth Northstar mail, to turn mail forwarding off:<br \/>\n<code>cp ~\/.forward ~\/.forward_dir\/back<br \/>\nunset noclobber<br \/>\necho > ~\/.forward<br \/>\nset noclobber<\/code><br \/>\nTo turn mail forwarding back on:<br \/>\n<code>cp ~\/.forward_dir\/back ~\/.forward<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nReferences:<br \/>\n[1]. <a href=\"http:\/\/support.wolfram.com\/mathematica\/systems\/unix\/interface\/remotedisplay.html\" target=_blank>Mathematica Technical Support<\/a><br \/>\n[2]. <a href=\"http:\/\/dartmouth.edu\/~rc\" target=_blank>Dartmouth Research Computing<\/a><br \/>\n[3]. <a href=\"http:\/\/helpdesk.princeton.edu\/kb\/display.plx?id=8446\" target=_blank>Princeton Help Desk<\/a><br \/>\n[4]. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esm.psu.edu\/mac-tex\/MacOSX-Emacs-Digests\/2005\/Mac-OS-X-Emacs-Digest-0033-01_31_05.html\" target=_blank>Mac OS X Emacs Digests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was totally new to Unix command lines and Mathematica, and some of these errors cost me a huge amount of time to finally solve. I have a bad habit that I don&#8217;t take notes for these &#8220;small&#8221; tricks. Then I have to repeat the searching process the next time I need them-_-. So I guess it&#8217;s a good idea for me to record them here for future use, aslo for others who have the same problems. <\/p>\n<p>These notes are for X11 under OS X, but other platforms should be similar.<\/p>\n<p>\tTo avoid BadWindows errors, use -Y option instead of -X.<br \/>\n                ssh -Y -l user host<br \/>\nOr you can edit \/etc\/ssh_config, and add the following two line<span class=\"moretag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/some-notes-on-running-mathematica-remotely\/\" title=\"Some notes on Running Mathematica Remotely\"> &#8230;\u7ee7\u7eed\u9605\u8bfb\u5168\u6587 &raquo; &raquo; &raquo; <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[1524,71,72,74,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacanteyes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}