How to Install CRAB in a Permanent Location (and run it (@UCSD on the UAF's))

Getting a Release:

• Extract the CRAB_1_5_4.tgz tarball into your permanent working area (for example: uaf-1.t1.ucsd.edu:~mlebourgeois/crab/.)
• Where to get the tgz:
  • On UCSD's uaf-1 and uaf-2, they exist in: /code/osgcode/cmslocal/crab/
  • On lxplus.cern.ch. the exist in /afs/cern.ch/cms/ccs/wm/scripts/Crab/
    • CERN has more updated releases than we do (don't know why).
  • On uaf-X, they also exist in ~mwlebour/crab/.

Setting up CRAB

• Making your environment correct:

source /code/osgcode/cmssoft/cmsset_default.sh CMSSW_1_5_4
source /code/osgcode/cmssoft/cms/setup/bashrc
export SCRAM_ARCH=slc4_ia32_gcc345
export VDT_LOCATION=/data/vdt
export EDG_WL_LOCATION=$VDT_LOCATION/edg
source /data/vdt/setup.sh

• All of the above lines I have in my .bash_profile file.
• Now, cd into the extracted folder that was extracted: cd workingarea/CRAB_X_X_X/
• The following lines then need to be executed exactly as written:

rm -rf $HOME/.bossrc $HOME/boss
./configure
source ./crab.sh
./configureBoss
source ./crab.sh

Setting up CRAB when logging back in:

• The only thing you need to do when logging back in is: source workingarea/CRAB_X_X_X/crab.sh
• Make sure that you are in a working CMSSW area and that you have run eval `scramv1 project sh`

Usefule Info

• A Page I wrote to myself with some info
• Oli's Crab Page
• CRAB Home Page
• Direct Link to Manual

Something Weird:

• Need to do this in CRAB_1_5_3 : export X509_USER_PROXY=/tmp/x509up_u`id -u`

-- MatthewLeBourgeois - 24 Jul 2007