[Swift-user] Re: installing swift

[Marco Mambelli]

My bad, I changed permission to the tree (files and subdir) but not to the 
directory itself and I was confused by a swift.log somewhere else in the 
path.

swift is installed and works fine

Thanks,
Marco



On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Ben Clifford wrote:

>
> Every user can share one swift installation, but your pwd needs to be
> writable by the user - so run in ~ rather than in the Swift installation
> directory.
>
> On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Marco Mambelli wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>> the user owning the installation ran succesfully:
>> Swift 0.8 (stripped) swift-r2448 cog-r2261
>>
>> RunID: 20090403-1305-k22hrieg
>> Progress:
>> Final status:  Finished successfully:1
>>
>> Another user had permission problems:
>> swift.log exists, it was created by the first user but it is writable also by
>> this one (I tryed to append something to it).
>> Which permission is looking for? does it need to be the owner? Group write is
>> not sufficient?
>> Should every user have its own swift installation?
>>
>> Below the java trace.
>> Thanks,
>> Marco
>>
>>
>> [train02 at grid07 swift]$ swift first.swift
>> log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
>> java.io.FileNotFoundException: swift.log (Permission denied)
>>         at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
>>         at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177)
>>         at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:102)
>>         at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:272)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:151)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:247)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:123)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:87)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:645)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:603)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:500)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:406)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:432)
>>         at
>> org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.selectAndConfigure(OptionConverter.java:460)
>>         at org.apache.log4j.LogManager.<clinit>(LogManager.java:113)
>>         at org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger(Logger.java:94)
>>         at org.globus.cog.karajan.Loader.<clinit>(Loader.java:43)
>> Could not start execution.
>>         first.xml (Permission denied)
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Ben Clifford wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's quite out of date, it seems.
>>>
>>> If you're installing on a machine with an OSG stack, get the version
>>> without extra stuff (swift-0.8-stripped.tar.gz) from the download page.
>>> Untar it, and put its bin/ directory on your system path.
>>>
>>> The stripped version does not contain commands like grid-proxy-init, to
>>> avoid conflict with real versions deployed elsewhere (i.e. in an OSG
>>> install).
>>>
>>> To test, go into the examples/swift/ directory, type:
>>>
>>> swift first.swift
>>>
>>> and check that a file hello.txt appears.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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