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Hi Brian, I'm sorry, I totally spaced when I looked at the previous output you sent me. It looks like the majority of the directories in /awips2/data_store/ are owned by root. (And the follow up outputs you just sent me show the directories owned by root as well, which is what made me go back and check your previous file). From the EDEXingest and EDEXgrib pid output you sent me recently it looks like both of those processes are properly running as user awips. I'm wondering if somehow they were running as root previously and that's how the directories were created with the user root. I *think* you may be able to change the ownerships, stop and start edex, and it should work. We can try by just changing the GOES ones for now, but I believe they should all be owned by user awips to work properly. To change the owner you can run the following command: chown -R awips:awips /awips2/data_store/GOES/ If it fails for permissions add 'sudo' to the beginning of the command. The -R means recursive so the subdirectories inside ..../GOES/ should also now be owned by user awips, group awips. You *may* be able to just make this change and satellite imagery should start working from there, if not give edex a stop and start and let me know what happens. If that works, I suggest running the command on the entire data store directory: chown -R awips:awips /awips2/data_store/ Let me know if this works! Thanks. --Shay Carter Software Engineer II UCAR - Unidata Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GXY-460628 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.