There was a bug in the Debian packages that caused this. The solution (until next release) is to create that directory and chown it to the riak user.
Sean Cribbs <s...@basho.com> Developer Advocate Basho Technologies, Inc. http://basho.com/ On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Mojito Sorbet wrote: > I installed the binary kit of riak on my ubuntu 9.10 system. > I checked that the config files in /etc/riak were how I wanted them. > I typed "riak start". It says > Attempting to restart script through sudo -u riak > mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/run/riak/': Permission denied > > Did I miss something? Does it want me to create a user named "riak"? > The installation instructions say nothing about this. > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
