/var/log/cpsdirector/ not created during installation

[noma]

Occasionally, I get something like the following error:

# cpsclient.py create helloworld
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/cpsclient.py", line 5, in <module>
    pkg_resources.run_script('cpsclient==1.4.1-xtfs', 'cpsclient.py')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 499, in run_script
    self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1235, in run_script
    execfile(script_filename, namespace, namespace)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpsclient-1.4.1_xtfs-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/cpsclient.py", line 8, in <module>
    BaseClient().main(sys.argv)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpsclient-1.4.1_xtfs-py2.7.egg/cps/base.py", line 566, in main
    return getattr(self, command)(service_type, cloud, appid)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpsclient-1.4.1_xtfs-py2.7.egg/cps/base.py", line 160, in create
    res = self.callapi("start/" + service_type, True, data)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpsclient-1.4.1_xtfs-py2.7.egg/cps/base.py", line 94, in callapi
    return self.__callapi_creds(method, post, data, endpoint, username, password, use_certs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cpsclient-1.4.1_xtfs-py2.7.egg/cps/base.py", line 69, in __callapi_creds
    raise Exception(res['msg'] + " while calling %s" % method)
Exception: Error upon service creation: <type 'exceptions.IOError'> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/cpsdirector/debugging.log' while calling start/helloworld

It can be reproduced by

service apache2 restart
cpsclient.py create <any service, e.g. xtreemfs or helloworld>

I guess the folder "/var/log/cpsdirector" should be created with the correct owner and access rights during the director installation or during runtime. Doing so manually fixes the issue for me.

[tcrivat]

Hi,

This is the same as issue #58. I added the instructions to create the directory in the install.sh installation script (commit 6832549d68bf7d00f5f569289b44deab1e9576d0), however this is a temporary fix, the correct way would be to allow to specify the desired log file in director.cfg and create the log file and its directory during runtime. For this reason, I will leave this issue open until I implement this.

Thanks.

[noma]

Sorry, I forgot to check for an existing issue.

I used "make install" instead of "install.sh". (The installation guide from the website says "make install".) These two mechanisms seem to be inconsistent. I suggest the Makefile should simply call install.sh for the install target.

[tcrivat]

Fixed in commit 12bb4eb6c54a61d30f731da422bf0c6d692ec465. Now the two mechanisms are consistent. This can be closed.