perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Paul Gray <>]

On 08/11/2011 02:46 AM, Roland Karch wrote:
> I have received the hint that your problem is likely related to Unix write 
> permissions on the file 
> /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/geant2-java-sql-ma/WEB-INF/classes/perfsonar/conf/service.properties.
>  Could you try setting this to world writable and try again?

Thanks for the suggestion - file permissions appear to be the culprit.

The file(s) in question are owned by perfsonar:perfsonar, and set 644.

I note that tomcat is running as tomcat55:nogroup, so this is indeed 
problematic for propagating changes to these files.

Perhaps adding tomcat55 to the perfsonar group and setting these files 
664 (initially) as part of the post-configuration process for the Debian 
installer would solve the problem.

I needed to chmod 666 the following files in order to push through the 
SQL MA configuration:

components.properties
service.properties
servlet.properties
wizard.properties

(all in 
/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/geant2-java-sql-ma/WEB-INF/classes/perfsonar/conf/)

The configuration test still fails at this point, but that's likely 
because I haven't done the requisite stitching.

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