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Pavel, ldm% ls -l ldm.pq -rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 101670912 Apr 18 00:37 ldm.pq the queue needs to be owned by ldm...not root. Since you are probably doing root things anyway... -Jeff ____________________________ _____________________ Jeff Weber address@hidden Unidata Support PH:303-497-8676 NWS-COMET Case Study Library FX:303-497-8690 University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 ________________________________________ ______________________ On Wed, 8 May 2002, Jeff Weber wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > I do not have permissions for this step: > > http://unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/ldmPreInstallList.html > > > Creating the Data and Log Directories > > The product queue MUST be on locally mounted disk and it is highly > recommended that locally stored data also be written to locally mounted > disk. > > Backup is also an issue. Data is volatile, as are log files and should not > be backed up on a regular basis. In addition, by convention, the data > directory is > a subdirectory of the LDM user's home directory, which should be backed > up. > > **This is when I get: > > ldm% pwd > /var > ldm% mkdir data > mkdir: Failed to make directory "data"; Permission denied > > I can do the symbolic links, but someone else needs to mkdirs > > ****** > > First one needs to create the directories on the non-backed up disk > partition, ie /var/data. > > % mkdir /var/data/ldm > % mkdir /var/data/ldm/logs > > Use a symbolic link to a non-backed up disk partition. > > % cd ~ldm > % ln -s /var/data/ldm data > % ln -s /var/data/ldm/logs logs > > > Thanks, > > -Jeff > ____________________________ _____________________ > Jeff Weber address@hidden > Unidata Support PH:303-497-8676 > NWS-COMET Case Study Library FX:303-497-8690 > University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 > ________________________________________ ______________________ > > > >