François kindly wrote back with the solution to his problem which turned out to
be the wrong permissions on the _directories_ of his database:
> > > I do not see any obvious file permission problems with WS50 (i.e. the
> > > wspec/* or database/* files have the same permissions in the 2 versions)
> >
> > OK, some obvious things to check:
> >
> > 2) really make sure that all the permissions are the same for both
> > databases.
> >
>> The problem was not with file permission, but directory permissions.
> The /acedb/database directory was drwxr-xr-x where it should be
> drwxrwxr-x
>> Now, everything is working fine.
Perhaps I should take this opportunity to remind everyone that the downside of
Unix file permissions is that you just have to get them right for acedb to work
!! I will review the documentation for setting up the server and see if it can
be clarified.
cheers Ed
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| Ed Griffiths, Acedb development, Informatics Group, |
| The Sanger Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, |
| Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK |
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