Re: [Refdb-users] could not connect web client error

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > OK, something seems wrong.  If I do the above, it seems the terminal 
 > gets stuck; I get no log (I am just specifying a location in my user 
 > directory), and nothing printed to the screen.
 > 

I don't know how OSX handles these issues, but if you start refdbd
using sudo it runs in a root context. root may lack the permission to
write to your user directory. He should have the permission to write
to /var/log, though. In any case, the log should go to syslog if
refdbd can't write to the specified log file. If refdb really hangs
and there is no log output whatsoever, it's a bug.

Come to think of it, why do you use sudo at all? If you start it as a
regular application (not as a daemon), you should be able to run it
from your user account and write a log to your user directory.

regards,
Markus

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