On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:51:13AM -0500, Claude Monet wrote:

Logged as root mserver5 works perfectly. Yet when I login as a user and call mserver5:

...

mserver5 --dbinit="include sql;"

I get the error:

!FATAL: GDKlockHome: Database lock '.gdk_lock' denied

Any help is greatly appreciated You need write access in the dbfarm directory for you lock file. You could try to specify your own dbfarm (and sql_logs) directory.

For example mserver5 --dbfarm="/tmp/dbfarm" --set sql_logdir="/tmp/sql_logs" --dbinit="include sql;" Niels

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