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Hello Karsten, I think the location for license.txt in the freesurfer 6 release needs to be under $FREESURFER_HOME, ie., $FREESURFER_HOME/license.txt, and cannot be relocated from there by an environment variable.. But you can try using a soft link to point to it in another location. While it does not work to preserve $HOME/license.txt as a reference in another environment variable like FREESURFER_HOME or within a soft link, I believe the shorthand notation ~/license.txt does work in a soft link. So in your common installation under $FREESURFER_HOME you could try, $ cd $FREESURFER_HOME$ ln -s ~/license.txt license.txt - and see if freesurfer complains if an individual users $HOME/license.txt (or ~/license.txt) is missing. In the newer code base on the freesurfer development branch, it should work to set the FS_LICENSE environment variable to point to the path of the license.txt file, but I don’t think that works in the 6.0.0 release. Ideally, I think the freesurfer group would prefer if each user signed up for their own license in order to track usage, so maybe try the soft link.
- R.
On Nov 14, 2019, at 12:58, Siller, Karsten H (khs3z) <khs3z@virginia.edu> wrote: External Email - Use Caution Hi, We’d like to install FreeSurfer globally for our users on a CentOS HPC system. Is it possible to define an alternative location for the FreeSurfer license file, e.g. ~/.license, so that users can use their individual license files with the globally installed software? Perhaps the license file location and name can be customized via an environment variable at runtime? If that is not possible, is it ok to install a single “global” license file for all users in the shared FreeSurfer installation directory? Thanks,Karsten -- Karsten SillerResearch ComputingUniversity of Virginia _______________________________________________Freesurfer mailing listFreesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.eduhttps://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer