Re: [Moosefs-users] Trying to install MooseFS but EACCES error

[Max <ma...@ag...>]

Thank you guys!

It works perfectly now! This system is absolutely great!

I have another question: Is is possible to set a default goal for the
whole server? (Actual files plus any future file)?

Thank you!

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 15:27 -0700, Benjamin Allen wrote:
> Max,
> 
> In your mfsmaster.cfg set DATA_PATH to somewhere that is writable by WORKING_USER. Otherwise create and chown the directory its attempting to use (typically /var/mfs). Mfschunkserver, and mfsmetalogger have the same configuration variable and the same requirement of having a writable data directory.
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Jan 10, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Max wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I am actually trying to install MooseFS with your step-by-step guide on
> > http://www.moosefs.org/tl_files/manpageszip/moosefs-step-by-step-tutorial-v.1.1.pdf
> > 
> > Every step worked fine until I try to 
> > #/usr/sbin/mfsmaster start 
> > for the first time. I get this error:
> > "can't create lockfile in working directory: EACCES (Permission denied)"
> > 
> > User mfs is part of the mfs group. I tried as root, as mfs and as
> > myself.
> > 
> > Machine is:
> > Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> > Description:	Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
> > Release:	8.04
> > Codename:	hardy
> > 
> > Chunkservers are going to be Fedora 15 and ext3.
> > 
> > Any idea? could it be a directory missing or something like that?
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
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