Re: Permission errors

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Scott McMillan (scott++at++ht.com)
Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:35:06 -0400 (EDT)

> 2019 PF Fatal/SysErr: pfInitArenas() usinit failed for
> /usr/people/mrp/MRP_OTW/pfSemaFile.a000V
>
> Does someone know why I would be getting this error? Unless I run as
> root I am unable to allocate and init the share memory....I figure it's a
> permission problem, but that's about as far as what's obvious. Can
> anyone narrow it down a little more?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - b. wasileski

Yes, this happens if you do not have write permission to that directory
(/usr/people/mrp/MRP_OTW). A possible solution is to move the semaphore
arena to something like /usr/tmp where _usually_ everyone has write
permission. You can do this by setting the PFTMPDIR environment variable to
the desired location. However, is sounds like the software that you are
using is overriding this mechanism with a call to

   pfTmpDir("/usr/people/mrp/MRP_OTW");

If this is the case, you need to change the source code (I recommend removing
it and using the environment variable instead) and recompile.

Hope this helps,
scott

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