<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Sean and other dashboard maintainers,<div><br></div><div>Please set the<font face="Menlo"><span style="font-size: 11px;"> </span></font>ExternalData_OBJECT_STORES environment variable to some place outside the build directory this will improve the robustness on the dashboard.</div><div><br></div><div>This variable sets a local cache for the ExternalData. By caching it outside the build directory it will not need to download the data every night. Therefore any hick-ups on the midas servers or local network will not show up on the dashboard. </div><div><br></div><div>I have mine set to ${HOME}/.ExternalData in my .bashrc file.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Brad</div></body></html>