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icon5.gif   New entry cannot be written to directory "/usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo/", posted by Tapasi Ghosh on Mon Feb 8 13:52:33 2016 image.png
    icon2.gif   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 
       icon2.gif   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 
          icon2.gif   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 
             icon2.gif   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 
                icon2.gif   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: 68256     Entry time: Mon Feb 8 17:40:27 2016     In reply to: 68255     Reply to this: 68257
Icon: Reply  Author: Tapasi Ghosh  Author Email: tapasi03@gmail.com 
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/" 

Sorry, it was my mistake while copying  from terminal to the email .  There is no "demo" directory under /usr/local/lib.

Tapasis-MacBook-Pro:elog tapasi$ cd  /usr/local/elog/logbooks/demo

Tapasis-MacBook-Pro:demo tapasi$ ls -ltr

total 0

drwxr-xr-x   3 tapasi  admin   102 Sep 22 11:00 2001

drwxr-xr-x  55 503     admin  1870 Dec 17 13:21 2015

drwxr-xr-x   2 tapasi  admin    68 Jan  7 14:54 2016

 

So, how can I change the user from "nobody" to my name, so that elogd runs in my user name ?

Thanks

Andreas Luedeke wrote:

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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