My user has permission to touch inside the Fs. I am not getting why it is checking for /backup.
Any suggestions on this , what else I can check On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 12:15 AM bricklen <brick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:41 AM Sonam Sharma <sonams1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I was setting up pg_auto_failover. Have successfully set up and monitor >> and primary instance. While setting up secondary it's failing with below : >> >> ERROR Failed to ensure empty directory "//backup" : Permission denied >> Error Failed initialise standby server , see above for details. >> > > If you're using the tool from Citus, per > https://github.com/citusdata/pg_auto_failover/blob/d8ba26f47a60eaf1e1dc63ae67279553984d84f5/src/bin/pg_autoctl/file_utils.c#L112 > Is the problem literally that the OS user executing the commands does not > have sufficient permission to work in that directory? If you are creating > your data directory manually in "/", you might want to create a directory > under that path that the user executing the commands has sufficient > permission to modify (delete, create, write to) >
