BIRCH
BIRCH -removing BIRCH access

Run the nobirch script

Before uninstalling BIRCH for an update, it is important to temporarily turn off BIRCH access for the BIRCH administrator. For example, every time you run a script, the BIRCH setup commands run from your .profile or .cshrc files will try run. If BIRCH has been uninstalled, you won't be able to run most shell scripts because .profile or .cshrc will encounter errors, looking for files that are no longer present.

Run the nobirch script, which removes lines added to .profile, .login and .cshrc that
were added previously by the 'newuser' script. Run 'nobirch' as follows:

$birch/admin/nobirch

Once BIRCH is reinstalled, you can again run the newuser script to restore BIRCH access.


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