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New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Tapasi Ghosh on Mon Feb 8 13:52:33 2016

Re: New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Feb 8 15:07:05 2016

Re: New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Tapasi Ghosh on Mon Feb 8 16:19:11 2016

Re: New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Andreas Luedeke on Mon Feb 8 16:27:45 2016

Re: New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Tapasi Ghosh on Mon Feb 8 17:40:27 2016

Re: New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Stefan Ritt on Mon Feb 8 19:29:47 2016

Message ID: 68255 Entry time: Mon Feb 8 16:27:45 2016 In reply to: 68254 Reply to this: 68256

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Author:

Andreas Luedeke

Author Email:

andreas.luedeke@psi.ch

Category:

Question

OS:

Mac OSX

ELOG Version:

elog-3.1.0

Subject:

Re: New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/"

The process elogd runs as the user "nobody". This user obviously cannot write to /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo.

But apparently you've created the wrong directory anyway: you've listed /usr/local/elog/demo, but ELOG looks for /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo.

Cheers, Andreas

Tapasi Ghosh wrote:

Thanks for your reply.

I am the user and it also has the write access

cd /usr/local/elog/

ls -ltr

drwxrwxrwx 6 tapasi admin 204 Jan 7 18:26 demo

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

You should check if the directory /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo belongs to the right user and has the right write permissions.

Since the elogd process belongs to the user "nobody", the directory should best belong to "nobody" as well (or - not recommended - allows write access for "others")

Cheers, Andreas

Tapasi Ghosh wrote:

Dear All,

I could not submit a new enetry to my logbook whenever restarting my laptop. I am a new user to elog.

Attached is the screenshot of the error message and also there is "nobody" while I grep elog.

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Tapasis-MacBook-Pro-2:elog-3.1.0 tapasi$ ps aux | grep elog

tapasi 560 0.4 0.0 2432772 644 s002 S+ 9:50AM 0:00.01 grep elog

nobody 76 0.0 0.4 2481308 18440 ?? Ss 9:48AM 0:00.08 /usr/local/sbin/elogd -c /usr/local/elog/elogd.cfg

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Any suggesstion will be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Tapasi

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