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Why am I getting "Can not write to the CA certs directory" when restarting OpsCenter?

I am receiving the following error message when attempting to restart OPSCENTER:

[opscenterd] ERROR: Can not write to the CA certs directory: /var/lib/opscenter/ssl/lcm (MainThread)
ERROR: java.lang.Exception: Failure starting Lifecycle Manager: Can not write to the CA certs directory: /var/lib/opscenter/ssl/lcm

Any insight would be appreciate it!

-Simon

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dmngaya avatar image dmngaya commented ·

hi Simon,

login unix who are running opscenter has privilges to write on this directory ?

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scano_183208 avatar image scano_183208 dmngaya commented ·

@dmngaya

Hi! than you for getting back to me. How do i know what user or group is running opscenter?

I was able to ix it by giving the opscenter user read and write permissions to this directory. But this was just blind luck.

I guess i would like to know who and what is runnin opscenter so that i know what i need to do if this happens again.

Thank you,

Simon

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dmngaya avatar image dmngaya commented ·

hi, on which environment are you running opscenter ? if it is on linux, you can run ps -ef | grep opscenter or ls -ltr /var/lib/opscenter/

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Erick Ramirez answered

@scano_183208 If you've installed OpsCenter from the RPM or Debian package, the OpsCenter daemon will run as a service as the opscenter Linux user. If for whatever reason the service was started as the root user, some of the directories that OpsCenter will lose ownership and you will need to manually reset the permissions.

In your case, we recommend that you reset the permissions on /var/lib/opscenter and all the subdirectories recursively using this command:

$ sudo chown -R opscenter:opscenter /var/lib/opscenter

Note that it is preferable to reset ownerships when OpsCenter is shutdown. Cheers!

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