Hi Frank,

Thank you for your prompt reply. I did check again that the directory exists, and sure enough it's there :-)

I have attached the defs.local.ini file here. The output of 'ls -la ./scratch/ettest50/simulations' was total 8 drwxrwxrwx 2 ettest50 lsuusers 4096 Mar 27 18:41 . drwxrwxrwx 3 ettest50 lsuusers 4096 Mar 27 21:25 ..

Cheers, Chaitanya.

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Frank Loeffler knarf@cct.lsu.edu wrote:

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 02:30:42PM +1100, Chaitanya Shettigara wrote:

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Parameter file: /home/ettest50/Cactus/par/static_tov.par Error: could not access simulation base directory /scratch/ettest50/simulations for reading and writing Aborting Simfactory.

I notice that someone had the same problem back in 2011, and I created

the

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directory by hand which seemed to be a solution that worked for him,

I almost replied with that advice. :)

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but I keep getting the same error.

This is odd.

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I also gave it completely open access permissions in case that was the problem.

This should not be necessary. Everything you run uses your account, so as long as you can write there simfactory should be happy.

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Can anyone advise me on how to solve this problem?

It's tempting to check again that the directory exists, but only you can do so (/scratch/ettest50 is on drwx------). If it really does exist (/scratch/ettest50/simulations) then you probably have found a bug in simfactory, but an odd one since it seems to work for others.

Can you please send us your simfactory/etc/defs.local.ini file and the output of 'ls -la /scratch/ettest50/simulations' ?

Frank

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