Started to really push the nodes and getting the following errors on a linux based render farm.
/mnt/DeadlineRepository6/trash not found … which is true and should be created by the install script.
Access to path /mnt/DeadlineRepository6/temp/plugins_merge-licserver-0000.log is denied - again correct as the directory was R/W for owner and read only for group. Again that should be 775 or 777 by the install script.
In the deadline home directory (for me its NFS mounted at all slave tasks run as user deadline) there is a slave directory (deadline home/Thinkbox/Deadline6/slave)
The directory has all of the nodes as a directory each (IE Render01/Render02 etc) … problem found was some have 775 permission and others have 755, therefore giving problems…
Is there anyway to read the job logfile from command line??
Reason for asking is while still in the testing stage I would like to monitor 4 or 5 nodes at the same time which I cannot do via the monitor.
Chris
When do you see this error? On installation, or when running one of the apps, or somewhere else?
Again, when do you see this error? Note that the repository installer no longer sets permissions, to avoid blowing away permissions that were previously set up on the shared folder.
The client installer sets the permissions on this home folder to 777. I guess it’s an issue with the subfolders inheriting those permissions. Any noticeable pattern for the ones set to 775 and the ones set to 755? I’m surprised that some would be different than others.
Also, what specific problems is this causing? Any error messages you could send us?
Do you mean the slave log? You can run this from the command line to connect to a slave log from a terminal:
deadlinecommand -ConnectToSlaveLog [slave name]
Cheers,
I was poking around on deadline monitor.
We basically had a arnold job which would not render (which had nothing to do with Deadline in the end) and I was digging around for clues.
Can I find them now… I have had a dig around and cannot find them which is very bad on my side.
Can you check your Monitor version? You can find it by selecting Help -> About in the Monitor and checking the Deadline version number. The code that would check for a ‘trash’ and ‘temp’ folder was removed a few releases ago, so the only reason the Monitor should complain about those paths is if it was an older version.
We did discover though that the repository installer can still create that plugin_merge file in the temp folder in the repository. That will be fixed in beta 16.
Cheers,
Running Deadline version 6.0.0.49986
Found the trash error appears when you connect to a slave log and its performing housekeeping but does not appear most of the time.
That’s a really old version! 
That was beta 10, and we’re currently on beta 15. You should definitely upgrade your system to beta 15 and let us know if you continue to see any of these problems.
Cheers,