[Darshan-users] Cannot create log directory

[Jeffrey Layton]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 11:49 AM Jeffrey Layton <laytonjb at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:17 PM Snyder, Shane <ssnyder at mcs.anl.gov>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Thanks for the reply! I apologize for not thinking of the need for the
> existence of the root directory - I should have caught that.
>

Oops - one quick question. What permissions do you recommend for the root
directory?

Thanks!


> Thanks again!
>
> Jeff
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>
>> Thanks!
>> --Shane
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>> *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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