Hi Dan, Chroot gets you a space that "looks" like it is a separate system. Given this is R, I assume you are probably wanting this for HPC like purposes... Could I suggest building your own version of R and installing into a nfs area? You may also wish to investigate the facilities provided by the package environment-modules - they can be quite handy (these aren't environmental monitoring). My R users tend to need the later versions of R. I configure R with something like: ./configure --prefix=/nfs_apps --enable-R-shlib --with-x --with-tcltk Regards Robert On 06/12/2014 05:12 AM, Dan Hyatt wrote: > What will chroot get me. > I have root on the server, I have a filesystem mounted on all server. > > What I want to do is contain the binaries and dependancies on the nfs > filesystem > On 6/11/2014 11:30 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Can you use chroot? >> >> >> On 11 June 2014 18:26, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote: >> >>> I have googled, read the man page, and such. >>> >>> What I am trying to do is install applications to a NFS mounted drive, >>> where the libraries and everything are locally installed on that >>> filesystem so that it is portable across servers (I have over 100 >>> servers which each need specific applications installed via yum and we >>> do not want to install 100 copies). >>> >>> We tried the yum relocate and it was not available on Centos6.4 >>> >>> and >>> yum --nogpgcheck localinstall R-3.1.0-5.el6.x86_64 >>> >>> I want the binaries and all dependencies in the application filesystem >>> which is remote mounted on all servers. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Dan Hyatt >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos