> Thanks for that. What a basic oversight on my part, won't do that again.

> On 8 Oct 2012, at 09:50, Rafa García <conta...@rafagarcia.net> wrote:

> Have you re-checked /var permissions? It seems to fail because it cann't
> create /var/massiveapp with vagrant user

> /var is set as root for owner and group, so that's the problem. Forgot to
> check the permissions. There's no write access for 'other' group, or root
> group - will fix that tonight.

> Off-topic: BTW I have this ebook bought but in my pending reading list :)
> How is it?

> I like it. I've got vagrant working to set up and create VM's, and I've
> got some of the Puppet DSL under my belt now.

> Just need to get Capistrano deploying and I'll be good to go for the basic
> server setup I need to deploy my apps to. I've been reluctant to upgrade my
> Centos 5 server, not wanting to take a current app offline in case I have
> problems setting it all up again. So rather than do it all manually again,
> I thought I'd plump for using Puppet to make future upgrades more of an
> automated process.

> Vagrant is good too, it makes it simple to set up and manage VM's just as
> you would with a remote server, so I can set up a Centos 6 server VM with
> Vagrant, provision it with Puppet, deploy with Capistrano, then use what I
> learn to make sure I can setup my production server as needed.

> I'd highly recommend the book, it's a good read, with good examples, and
> so far everything has worked just as the examples say they should. The
> books forum appears to be a little quiet - maybe it's just temporary though.

> Thanks for the help - I need to get started on the second year of my CS
> Degree with the OU, and I'm hoping there's a Linux module so I can get a
> decent grounding on Linux - as my original question clearly shows I
> need…..otherwise it's going to be books I guess.

> Thanks again,

> Paul

> 2012/10/3 paul h <p...@hollyer.me.uk>

>> Hi,

>> I've been going through 'Deploying Rails' from PragProg, and have hit a
>> problem deploying with Capistrano.

>> I've set up a VM with Vagrant and provisioned it with Puppet. Puppet
>> creates the directories for Cap as user => vagrant, group => vagrant

>> When I check the directories permissions I get:

>> drwxrwxr-x 3 vagrant vagrant 4096 2012-10-03 01:16 /var/massiveapp

>> When I run cap deploy:setup I get the following errors:

>> * executing `deploy:setup' * executing "mkdir -p /var/massiveapp
>> /var/massiveapp/releases /var/massiveapp/shared
>> /var/massiveapp/shared/system /var/massiveapp/shared/log
>> /var/massiveapp/shared/pids" servers: ["localhost"] [localhost] executing
>> command [localhost] sh -c 'mkdir -p /var/massiveapp
>> /var/massiveapp/releases /var/massiveapp/shared
>> /var/massiveapp/shared/system /var/massiveapp/shared/log
>> /var/massiveapp/shared/pids' *** [err :: localhost] mkdir: cannot create
>> directory `/var/massiveapp': Permission denied *** [err :: localhost]
>> mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/massiveapp': Permission denied ***
>> [err :: localhost] mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/massiveapp':
>> Permission denied *** [err :: localhost] mkdir: cannot create directory
>> `/var/massiveapp': Permission denied *** [err :: localhost] mkdir: cannot
>> create directory `/var/massiveapp': Permission denied *** [err ::
>> localhost] mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/massiveapp': Permission
>> denied command finished in 43ms failed: "sh -c 'mkdir -p /var/massiveapp
>> /var/massiveapp/releases /var/massiveapp/shared
>> /var/massiveapp/shared/system /var/massiveapp/shared/log
>> /var/massiveapp/shared/pids'" on localhost

>> Here is my deploy.rb which deploys as user vagrant(?) which should be
>> allowed read/write access but the above errors seem to say otherwise....

>> #---
>> # Excerpted from "Deploying Rails",
>> # published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
>> # Copyrights apply to this code. It may not be used to create training material,
>> # courses, books, articles, and the like. Contact us if you are in doubt.
>> # We make no guarantees that this code is fit for any purpose.
>> # Visit http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/cbdepra for more book information.
>> #---
>> require 'bundler/capistrano'
>> set :application, "massiveapp"
>> set :scm, :git
>> set :repository, "git://github.com/deployingrails/massiveapp.git"
>> server "localhost", :web, :app, :db, :primary => true
>> ssh_options[:port] = 2222
>> ssh_options[:keys] = "~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key"
>> set :user, "vagrant"
>> set :group, "vagrant"
>> set :deploy_to, "/var/massiveapp"
>> set :use_sudo, false
>> set :deploy_via, :copy
>> set :copy_strategy, :export
>> namespace :deploy do
>>   task :start do ; end
>>   task :stop do ; end
>>   desc "Restart the application"
>>   task :restart, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
>>     run "#{try_sudo} touch #{File.join(current_path,'tmp','restart.txt')}"
>>   end
>>   desc "Copy the database.yml file into the latest release"
>>   task :copy_in_database_yml do
>>     run "cp #{shared_path}/config/database.yml #{latest_release}/config/"
>>   end
>> end
>> before "deploy:assets:precompile", "deploy:copy_in_database_yml"

>> Can anyone help? I'm stuck because the directories appear to have the correct permissions for Cap?????

>> Thanks

>> Paul

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