[Darshan-users] Cannot create log directory

[Jeffrey Layton]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:17 PM Snyder, Shane <ssnyder at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> I just had to try it out to remind myself, but 'darshan-mk-log-dirs' does
> currently expect the root log directory (i.e., the log path you passed to
> '--with-log-path' config argument, '/usr/local/darshan-logs' in your case)
> to be already created outside of the script. That is a little confusing
> given the name of the utility, in that you'd probably expect it to
> gracefully handle the case where the root doesn't already exist... I just
> created an issue to ensure we make the errors more clear in why the script
> fails, and will probably also just modify the script to create the root if
> it doesn't exist -- I don't see any reason why it shouldn't already be
> doing that.
>

Thanks for the reply! I apologize for not thinking of the need for the
existence of the root directory - I should have caught that.

Thanks again!

Jeff


> Thanks!
> --Shane
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Darshan-users <darshan-users-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov> on behalf
> of Jeffrey Layton <laytonjb at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 18, 2020 3:06 PM
> *To:* darshan-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov <darshan-users at lists.mcs.anl.gov>
> *Subject:* [Darshan-users] Cannot create log directory
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> I have a small problem when I build Darshan. It doesn't create the log
> directory, so I used the script darshan-mk-log-dirs.pl. However, I get an
> error:
>
> # ./darshan-mk-log-dirs.pl
> Error: could not mkdir /usr/local/darshan-logs//2020.
>
> This is an Ubuntu system I used sudo to run the script and I also tried as
> root. In either case, I get the same result.
>
> While I can follow the Perl script (it's been a few years since I last
> coded in Perl), I want to make sure I track down the cause of this error.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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