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From: Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>
To: Margaret BRIERTON <margaret@retriever.com.au>
Cc: gnats-devel@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: locked file problem
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10107110757110.24641-100000@sys4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B4C0F90.21B042FA@retriever.com.au>

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Margaret BRIERTON wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I've created a problem report and when i go in and try and query it I get the following problem:
> 
> Error
> 
> 
> 
> Cannot create lock file
> /usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/locks/1.lock
> 
> The PR has not been changed. If this problem persists, please contact a Gnats administrator.
> 
> 
> Can someone please tell me why this is happening?

All these permission problems make me ask if you did not run "make
install" as root. You must do so because it changes the ownership of
certain programs and files to gnats. Please send this output:

ls -al /usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm

...RickM...

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-11  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-09 19:04 GNATS Installation Ajay V
2001-07-09 20:56 ` Margaret BRIERTON
2001-07-10 17:54   ` problems Margaret BRIERTON
2001-07-10 20:47     ` problems Rick Macdonald
2001-07-11  1:36       ` locked file problem Margaret BRIERTON
2001-07-11  6:58         ` Rick Macdonald [this message]
2001-07-11 10:40     ` problems Curtis Ireland

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