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Thijs
Thijs

Reputation: 1546

XDMP-FORESTERR Permission Denied

When I try to create a Forest on a new location I get this error:

2016-09-09 21:37:42.645 Alert: XDMP-FORESTERR: Error in initialization of forest mlepub-spinning: SVC-FILSTAT: File status error: stat64 '/media/thijs/Forests/mlepubdata/Forests/mlepub': Permission denied

What should the configuration be? Even chmod 777 does not do the trick. I have used this many times before and never with any problem, maybe an issue in 8.0-4.2?

[[EDIT]]

Parent directory
The mount point is owned by root, the folder on this level is owned by thijs and the mlepub directory is owned by daemon. Also, I've removed any restriction from the folder using chmod 777 and have also tested this without those crazy permissions.

[11:06] /media/thijs/Forests

total 28
drwx------  4 thijs  thijs   4096 Sep 12 10:52 .
drwxr-x---+ 3 root   root    4096 Sep 12 10:52 ..
drwx------  2 root   root   16384 Nov 12  2015 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx  2 daemon daemon  4096 Sep 12 10:52 mlepub

The data directory Shows every possible permission and ownership to daemon and that the parent directory is owned by thijs.

thijs@Puc
[11:06] /media/thijs/Forests/mlepub

total 8
drwxrwxrwx 2 daemon daemon 4096 Sep 12 10:52 .
drwx------ 4 thijs  thijs  4096 Sep 12 10:52 ..

Upvotes: 1

Views: 536

Answers (2)

Thijs
Thijs

Reputation: 1546

...the user needs to have read and execute rights from the root until the defined location and only write rights on the final location...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13858/do-the-parent-directorys-permissions-matter-when-accessing-a-subdirectory

Upvotes: 2

Mads Hansen
Mads Hansen

Reputation: 66783

By default, MarkLogic runs as the user daemon. Make sure that the directory (and it's containing directories) have read and execute permissions. You cannot list the contents of a directory without execute.

Verify that daemon (or whichever user MarkLogic is configured to run as) has execute permissions on each directory in the path. It may be that the permissions on the containing folder(s) need to be adjusted as well.

Upvotes: 3

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