Hi Thomas, it works for me, so I am wondering whether I have carried out different steps. Here are mine:
# stop running arangodb3 service steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ sudo /etc/init.d/arangodb3 stop [ ok ] Stopping arangodb3 (via systemctl): arangodb3.service. # modify config to point to /dbdata steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ sudo vim /etc/arangodb3/arangod.conf # create directory and give 777 permissions steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ sudo mkdir /dbdata steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ sudo chmod -R 777 /dbdata # restart arangodb3 steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ sudo /etc/init.d/arangodb3 start [ ok ] Starting arangodb3 (via systemctl): arangodb3.service. # check if process is there steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ ps fax | grep arangod 7856 pts/6 S+ 0:00 | \_ grep --color=auto arangod 7587 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/arangod --uid arangodb --gid arangodb --pid-file /var/run/arangodb/arangod.pid --temp.path /var/tmp/arangod --log.foreground-tty false --supervisor 7588 ? Sl 0:04 \_ /usr/sbin/arangod --uid arangodb --gid arangodb --pid-file /var/run/arangodb/arangod.pid --temp.path /var/tmp/arangod --log.foreground-tty false --supervisor # view directory steemann@flittard:~/Downloads$ ls -al /dbdata/ total 32 drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 4096 Jul 1 09:04 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Jul 1 09:04 .. drwxrwxrwx 3 arangodb arangodb 4096 Jul 1 09:04 databases drwxr-xr-x 2 arangodb arangodb 4096 Jul 1 09:04 journals -rw------- 1 arangodb arangodb 4 Jul 1 09:04 LOCK drwxr-xr-x 2 arangodb arangodb 4096 Jul 1 09:04 rocksdb -rw-rw---- 1 arangodb arangodb 68 Jul 1 09:04 SERVER -rw-rw---- 1 arangodb arangodb 50 Jul 1 09:04 SHUTDOWN I ran the above using ArangoDB-3.0.0 on an Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Best regards Jan Am Freitag, 1. Juli 2016 08:58:11 UTC+2 schrieb Thomas Weiss: > > Hi Kaveh, > > Thanks for your reply. I've gone full steam and made that /dbdata 777, but > I still get that error. > > Thomas > > On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 2:44:19 PM UTC+8, Kaveh Vahedipour wrote: >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> what are the user rights on "/dbdata"? v3.0 is somewhat more restrictive >> in that regards. The startup timing and how we retreat to arangodb user >> rights have changed since. >> >> Kind regards, >> Kaveh >> >> On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 8:01:53 AM UTC+2, Thomas Weiss wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> >>> I'm trying to run 3.0 on an Ubuntu VM and it worked well until I tried >>> to locate the databases in a different location. >>> >>> I modified arangod.conf like: >>> [database] >>> directory = /dbdata >>> (which worked fine with 2.8 btw) >>> but now I get an error when I *sudo /etc/init.d/arangodb3 start*, and >>> looking at the logs it looks like a permission denied error. >>> >>> Interestingly, when I just *sudo arangod* it works fine. >>> >>> Any hint would be appreciated, thanks! >>> Thomas >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ArangoDB" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
