Cant create directory in /home

When I try to create a user in /home it won't let me. It shows that it is readable and executable only. Should I change the permissions. Or do I have to put the user directories in another location.

/home is usually reserved for automounted directories.
Users "normally' reside in /export/home.

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Cannot create directory `/home/a/.config/openbox

Hi All,
I'm trying to setup openbox because it is so highly recommended in Arch but I get this:
[a@Astudio ~]$ mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox/
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/a/.config': Permission denied
[a@Astudio ~]$ su
Password:
bash-3.2# chmod -R 755 /home/a/
bash-3.2# exit
exit
[a@Astudio ~]$ mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox/
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/a/.config/openbox/': Permission denied
[a@Astudio ~]$ su
Password:
bash-3.2# chmod -R 755 /home/
bash-3.2# exit
exit
[a@Astudio ~]$ mkdir -p ~/.config/openbox/
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/a/.config/openbox/': Permission denied
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks,
Arthur
sorry about the double post!
Last edited by Frabato (2008-10-18 02:41:01)

Have you just installed Arch? Is there a chance that you're not the owner of your home directory? (check "ls -l /home/" to be sure... if not, chown it)
I don't know what else it could be but someone here will surely have an idea.

Unable to create a user home directory ?

When I use root to create a new account, it can not create a default home directory for this user .
This problem will also cause a lot of other problems when using non-root account to login in.
$ ssh [email protected]
Password:
Last login: Mon Jul 7 10:13:42 2008 from 10.250.X.X
Could not chdir to home directory /home/admin: No such file or directory
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005
what's the problem ?

chances are its the automounter. check /etc/auto_master. it by default includes /home as a mount point for the automount process. if you dont need the automount for /home, comment that line out, save the file, and run automount -v (-v for verbose output). you should then be able to create dirs under /home. or, you could use a diff home dir prefix, or use the automounter (this will take some setup).

Why can't create file under /home directory?

I user solaris10, and login as root,I find I can't create any file or directory under /home directory! It say "operation not applicable" ,Why? I am puzzled it for a long time. Anyone could tell how to do it?
Thanks

For Solaris,
/home is not an on-disk file system, it is a file system under the
control of the automounter, and only the automounter can create
directories/files in it.
If you don't want the automounter to manage /home, then remove the
"/home" entry from /etc/auto_master
(and issue the command "automount -v" to force the file
to be reread, or reboot).
However, the typical setup for Solaris is to locate user's home directories
in /export/home.
Kapil Khanna

Never - Create a portable home directory on this computer now?

I have kinda the opposite problem from normal. I have Home Directories and PHD's working fine. I think it is working as expected, with one exception...
My Daughter has an iMac at my office. I set up her account as PHD so she could also use the account from home. (We SOMETIMES go home <g>) But when I log on as her from one of the other desktops at the office, I get the dialog: "Create a portable home directory on this computer now?". I answer never. And it keeps coming up. Does Never not mean Never?
Panther Server, Tiger Clients. TIA
PB G4 Al (2), MDD G4 Dual (3), AGP, Cube, W2K Server, B&W G3 Server & others (includes SE30)

Hello,
I started a thread concerning the opposite phenomenon, when you once click "Never" it seems you cannot change your mind and get the question asked again ... maybe you could contribute to answer the question ?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1375953&#1375953
Brett_X said: Most of the PHD stuff happens at the client level anyway
I guess the settings preventing the dialog from coming up are stored on the client machine ?
Thank You.

Oracle 10g enterprise manager create directory

Hi,
I am new to using Oracle 10g on Linux and struggle with creating a new directory using the Enterprise Manager "wizard".
I go to Database Instance > Directory Objects > Create Directory objects
and try it with \home\oracle , then test the file system it says directory not available.
pressing OK and continueing with my data dump does not work because I get the error "The directory does not exist"
I wonder why it has not been created?
moreover how do I delete the directory objects. I cant find a delete button using the enterprise manager browser ui ?
Edited by: metalray on 10-Jul-2009 09:12

metalray wrote:
Hi EdStevens,
thanks for your reply.
I have heard this "read a book" a thousand times and gues what. I am
reading a book and this is exercise 9.2 and it tells me (as part
of the ultimate learning path) to use the enterprise manager
after I have created the directory with sqlplus.
I also tried the intuitiv DROP DIRECTORY in sqlplus as well but...
the directory does apparently not exist (altough I can see it clearly there in the list).That could be an ownership issue. Who does the directory belong to? who are you logged on as?
>
>
>
Hence I came to the conlusion to create a directory using the good old enterprise manager and it did not work too well either.
whatever I type in there I get file system does not exist. I guess I do something wrong with the PATH written into the textbox right?
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Who are you connecting as when you log on to OEM? Try logging on with sysdba authority and you should see some more options available on the directory management page.
>
>
@DMBS direct
what I cant see is a delete button....
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I am trying to install software and am getting the following prompt.Installation Failed, the installer cant create the folder "var/folders/sq/2fzf3s_d2bzb21159nbwkb2r0000gn/T//install.3732dq0ogT. How do I repair this

I am trying to install software and am getting the following prompt.
"Installation Failed, the installer cant create the folder "var/folders/sq/2fzf3s_d2bzb21159nbwkb2r0000gn/T//install.3732dq0ogT.
How do I repair this

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line on this page to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
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I created a new home folder on an external but didn't move my old files over. Now I can't see the old hard drive in my mac mini. How can I locate that drive?

I wanted to move my home folder to an external drive. I created a new home folder and in advanced options I moved it over. I didn't however move my files over first, my bad. Now I can't see the hard drive on my mac mini. Is it possible to reverse it or get access to the old home folder and is it possible to still use the mac mini's internal hard drive for storage? How do I find my shared folder, it was on the internal drive. I'm new to macs as you might have guessed at this debockle. Can anyone help?

I'm using Mavricks. I wanted to move my home directory to an external and went into sys prop/users/advanced options and moved the folder ok. Being a noobie on Macs I didn't copy my data and such. So my settings were all new. Basicly now I don't see the internal drive on my mini. There is a lot of strage I'm not able to access. The internal drive doesn't show up. How can I put a folder back onto it so it shows up?

Burrito install fail, trying to create directory in wrong place

Below is the error log from my attempted install. Of the 23 errors 22 are being unable to deleted things it never created. The error that seems to be the initial cause is this:
Unable to create directory "\\drnas02\users\CADU\gae04\..\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito Preview
\\drnas02\users\CADU\gae04 is a home directory I have on a network drive, but the installer isn't trying to create the directory there, it is trying to put it one dir up (with the ..) where I don't even have read permissions. I never specified the gae04 directory to the installer, but I assume its defined as some sort of application data directory as one other app created a directory there.
Here is the full error log.
Exit Code: 7
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 23 error(s), 0 warning(s)
ERROR: 16101 Unable to create directory "\\drnas02\users\CADU\gae04\..\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito Preview
ERROR: 16101 Command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand failed.
ERROR: 16101 Unable to delete directory "\\drnas02\users\CADU\gae04\..\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito Preview". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 16101 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: 16098 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\eclipse\configuration\config.ini" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 16098 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 16097 Unable to delete directory "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\eclipse\configuration". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 16097 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: 16035 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\AMT\application.xml" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 16035 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 16034 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\AMT\application.sif" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 16034 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 16033 Unable to delete directory "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\AMT". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 16033 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: 21 Deleting Registry Key - failure. Error 5
ERROR: 3 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\FlashBuilder.exe" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 3 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 2 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito\.eclipseproduct" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 2 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 1 Unable to delete directory "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder Burrito". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 1 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: - Adobe Flash Builder: Install failed

Indeed, our core installer team has agreed to supply the home folder path token we need for this fix, in time for the Burrito release.
I experimented with changing my own network Documents location a few months ago, and was able to move it down one level without much difficulty. The actual steps vary a little depending on whether you're on WinXP, Vista or Win7:
WinXP:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147
Win7:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7files/thread/fd508c30-7dad-4a7e-a652-ba 49828e5f0e
-Chris

CREATE DIRECTORY Does not Create Any Directory in My File System Hard Disk

create or replace directory emp_dir
as 'D:\emp_direc';
Main Question:
*1. Transaction succeeded, but i have not seen emp_direc created in my D: drive. I'm running Vista Home Edition x32. Any idea why directory does not show up?*
Optional:
Extra info:
after creating a directory i did: - avoid comment sign
--create table oldemp ( fname char(25), lname char(25) )
--organization external
--(type oracle_loader
-- default directory emp_dir
-- access parameters
-- ( records delimited by newline
-- nobadfile
-- nologfile
-- fields terminated by ','
-- (fname position(1:20) char,
-- lname position(22:41) char)
-- location ('emp.dat')
--parallel 5
--reject limit 200;
Table created successfully, then I did
describe oldemp;
Name NULL Type
FNAME CHAR(25)
LNAME CHAR(25)
2 rows selected
Extra questions:
*2. emp.dat carries all the table data which can make data more portable to different oracle servers. However, it is one time operation, once table is populated, i can not update, insert, delete any rows. Thats what i know, if i'm wrong please let me know. If what i said is true, just confirm it if you don't mind...*
*3. Parallel 5, allows five oracle servers to deal with the emp.dat file at the same time. So won't there be any conflict! Maybe one server wants to read a certain data while the other server wants to delete it. Can you clarify please....*

user11164565 wrote:
create or replace directory emp_dir
as 'D:\emp_direc';
Main Question:
*1. Transaction succeeded, but i have not seen emp_direc created in my D: drive. I'm running Vista Home Edition x32. Any idea why directory does not show up?*
<snip>
From the fine SQL Reference Manual found a tahiti.oracle.com, in the prerequisites for the CREATE DIRECTORY command:
For file storage, you must also create a corresponding operating system directory, an ASM disk group, or a directory within an ASM disk group.
Your system or database administrator must ensure that the operating system directory has the correct read and write permissions for Oracle Database processes.
Privileges granted for the directory are created independently of the permissions defined for the operating system directory, and
the two may or may not correspond exactly. For example, an error occurs if sample user hr is granted READ privilege on the directory object but
the corresponding operating system directory does not have READ permission defined for Oracle Database processes.

Cant create connection Pool for MS SQL Server 2000 with Microsoft Driver

i am using bea weblogic server 6.1, i cant create connection pool while using MS
SQL Server 2000. i have installed JDBC Driver SAP1 from microsoft website. when
i give the following class name for JDBC driver and the connection url and click
apply while selecting the available server, a number of exception appears in default
server (that is the connection pool cannot be created..... cannot load the driver
class).
URL= jdbc:Microsoft:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:1433;DatabaseName=MyDB
Driver= com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
when i use the above setting in a JDBC simple application in Jbuilder
7.0 the application runs successfully and fetches the data deom MS SQL database
but in at Bea connection Pool is not created with these settings. i do give appropriate
username and password in properties field in connection pool. Thankx for any help!

khabbab wrote:
That was the original code part from "startweblogic" :
:runWebLogic
echo on
set PATH=.\bin;%PATH%
set CLASSPATH=.;.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;.\lib\weblogic.jar;
echo off
and i changed it to :
:runWebLogic
echo on
set PATH=.\bin;%PATH%
set CLASSPATH=.;.\lib\weblogic_sp.jar;.\lib\weblogic.jar;D:\Program Files\Microsoft
SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msbase.jar;D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\msutil.jar;D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server
2000 Driver for JDBC\lib\mssqlserver.jar;I suggest moving or copying the three ms driver jars to a directory that has no blanks
in it so the classpath doesn't have blanks in it. Ie:
go to the "D:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC\lib"
directory and do this:
mkdir D:\microsoft_jdbc_driver
cp *.jar D:\microsoft_jdbc_driver
Then make the classpath include D:\microsoft_jdbc_driver\msbase.jar etc.
Joe
>
>
echo off
when i save and run the bat file, server appears then disappears.
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]_this> wrote:
khabbab wrote:
The class path which is echoed at server startup does not include thepaths to
driver jar files. when i edited the "startweblogic.bat" file and includedthe
driver class paths to jar files, now the server doesnot even run. tellme what
to do now???Show me what change you made to the startweblogic file.
Joe
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]_this> wrote:
khabbab wrote:
kindly tell me how can i check that the class paths for driver jarfiles are included
in that string? thanks. also tell me can not i use the jdriver forsql server
2000?.The startup script will echo what it's doing, including printing out
the classpath
it will use. Yes you can use the jDriver for MS SQL2000. It is sufficient
for
basic JDBC, but the MS drivfer is preferable in some ways.
Joe
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]_this> wrote:
khabbab wrote:
i am using bea weblogic server 6.1, i cant create connection
pool
while
using MS
SQL Server 2000. i have installed JDBC Driver SAP1 from microsoft
website.
when
i give the following class name for JDBC driver and the connectionurl and click
apply while selecting the available server, a number of exception
appears
in default
server (that is the connection pool cannot be created..... cannot
load
the driver
class).The server startup script creates a string that will become the
classpath
for the server.
This string is part of the java call to start the server with a-classpath
argument. You need to
make sure the MS driver jars are part of that classpath string.
Joe
URL= jdbc:Microsoft:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:1433;DatabaseName=MyDB
Driver= com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
when i use the above setting in a JDBC simple applicationin Jbuilder
7.0 the application runs successfully and fetches the data deom
MS
SQL database
but in at Bea connection Pool is not created with these settings.
i
do give appropriate
username and password in properties field in connection pool.
Thankx
for any help!
khabbab wrote:
The class path which is echoed at server startup does not include thepaths to
driver jar files. when i edited the "startweblogic.bat" file and includedthe
driver class paths to jar files, now the server doesnot even run. tellme what
to do now???
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]_this> wrote:
khabbab wrote:
kindly tell me how can i check that the class paths for driver jarfiles are included
in that string? thanks. also tell me can not i use the jdriver forsql server
2000?.The startup script will echo what it's doing, including printing out
the classpath
it will use. Yes you can use the jDriver for MS SQL2000. It is sufficient
for
basic JDBC, but the MS drivfer is preferable in some ways.
Joe
Joseph Weinstein <[email protected]_this> wrote:
khabbab wrote:
i am using bea weblogic server 6.1, i cant create connection
pool
while
using MS
SQL Server 2000. i have installed JDBC Driver SAP1 from microsoft
website.
when
i give the following class name for JDBC driver and the connectionurl and click
apply while selecting the available server, a number of exception
appears
in default
server (that is the connection pool cannot be created..... cannot
load
the driver
class).The server startup script creates a string that will become the
classpath
for the server.
This string is part of the java call to start the server with a-classpath
argument. You need to
make sure the MS driver jars are part of that classpath string.
Joe
URL= jdbc:Microsoft:sqlserver://127.0.0.1:1433;DatabaseName=MyDB
Driver= com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver
when i use the above setting in a JDBC simple applicationin Jbuilder
7.0 the application runs successfully and fetches the data deom
MS
SQL database
but in at Bea connection Pool is not created with these settings.
i
do give appropriate
username and password in properties field in connection pool.
Thankx
for any help!

Cant create more partitions

Hi, i have Arch on a PC with a 80g HD. I have 4 partitions.
- / "root"
- /home
- /boot
- /swap
Im looking to install Backtrack in a dualbooting with Arch.
But i cant create more primary partitions.
I tried creating and extended partition, but an extended partition is also a primary partition. And gparted says that i have to delete a primary partition first, so im stucked.
What can i do?

ralvez wrote:
Another possible solution would be to get a new HDD (they are chip now!) and add it as a secondary HDD. That way you would have also the advantage that if something goes wring with the primary HDD your back-up data is safe in the second HDD.
Hope this helps.
R.
I've followded the advice, i got a 10G old HDD, its like 8 years old so i want to know if it will be slower because of its transfer capability.

Cant create folders

I just got an iPad 64g and I cant create new folders. Have tried dragging icons onto each other and also in iTunes on pc, but it just does nothing?
Any ideas? please

Have you tried rebooting the iPad .... or do a hard reset - the hard rest - hold down on the sleep button and the home button at the same time for about 10 seconds until the Apple logo appears - then let go of the buttons and the iPad will restart.
This wouldn't effect why the folders won't work on the PC but the folders on the iPad may work properly if you try this - no promises but you could try it.

Error 7 occurred at Create Folder in Create Directory Recursive.vi-

Recieved following message when attemoting to create source distribution
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Possible reason(s):
LabVIEW: File not found. The file might have been moved or deleted, or the file path might be incorrectly formatted for the operating system. For example, use \ as path separators on Windows, : on Mac OS, and / on Linux.

Hello,
Could you please list which options you are selecting when building a
source distribution (I am assuming you are using LabVIEW 8.0?).
Do you get this error when clicking on "Generate Preview" button when configuring source distribution properties?
Under "Distribution Settings" category, could you try checking the
"Disconnect type definitions and remove unuses polymorphic VI
instances" option and see if that helps with the build process?
Also I suggest Mass Compiling your VIs (Tools -> Advanced -> Mass Compile) before creating a source distribution.
If these do not help, could you attach your project with all the VIs it contains here?
Thank you and best regards,
Shakhina P.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

View for "create directory"

Hi
Is there a dictonary view where i can find all the "virtual directory" which are created with the "create directory" command ??
Thanks.

ah.. :)
So I should add, that in general those view names are "plurals" (ending with an S), e.g. dba | all | user _ objects, tables, tab_columns, indexes, synonyms, triggers, sequences, users, and so on.
(And the v$ dynamic/stats view names are often in singular, like v$metric, process, session, datafile, tablespace - but this "rule" seem to be deteriorating with new views added).

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