Hi, Are you running nodetool or cassandra as root? I think it doesn't really matter what user is running the nodetool. Those directories should be writable by the user who is running the actual cassandra process.
Hannu 2013/12/3 John Pyeatt <john.pye...@singlewire.com> > Then my issue must be the 0.000001% because > > 1) I'm running the repair as root. > 2) The directory exists and the permissions are appropriate. root:root 755 > 3) The three times it occurred during the repair it always complained > about backups directories. But there are dozens other backups directories > that were created during the repair that caused no exceptions. > > > The biggest issue with this is that is shuts down gossip. > > > > > On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 2:59 PM, John Pyeatt >> <john.pye...@singlewire.com>wrote: >> >>> Caused by: java.io.IOException: Unable to create directory >>> /data-1/cassandra/data/SinglewireSupport/Binaries/backups >>> >> >> This is an exception directly from a core java method. The cause is >> 99.99999% likely to be permissions. >> >> =Rob >> > > > > -- > John Pyeatt > Singlewire Software, LLC > www.singlewire.com > ------------------ > 608.661.1184 > john.pye...@singlewire.com >
