Sometimes copying plots to a directory on the filer fails due to the directory file itself being totally screwed. Notify ops by re-opening this ticket and read on for a solution...

Hi Ops, Tt-Ops,

This seems to be beyond our control...

fix is either to force a fsck or to copy over the contents of that directory
to a new one, removing the old one and replace it with the new one.

We cannot set the setgid bit of that directory is one reason we ask you to
have a look at it, other is that there might be actually more at stake and
precaution might be needed here..

On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:46:31AM +0100, Ruben van Staveren wrote:
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> Fo a couple of days it seems ROOT is reluctant to generate the (intermediate)
> required postscript file in the /ncc/ttpro/data/plots/day directory. other
> locations look fine, even the parent of the directory in question.
> It doesn't look like a permission problem as I can still touch files there.
> 
> maybe the directory file itself is hosed, containing stale invisible entries
> that prevent .ps creation
> 
> ttraffic@ceiba:/ncc/www/publish/pub/ripencc/mem-services/ttm/Plots$ ls -ld day
> week month trends

> drwxrwsr-x    3 ttraffic wwwgroup 10485760 Nov 17 10:37 day/

Cannot create behavior for files like tt01.tt02.ps etc

> drwxrwsr-x    4 ttraffic wwwgroup  4669440 Nov 17 10:45 month/
> drwxrwsr-x    4 ttraffic wwwgroup  5914624 Nov 16 14:20 trends/
> drwxrwsr-x    4 ttraffic wwwgroup  9695232 Nov 17 10:43 week/

these are fine

example:

ttraffic@ceiba:/ncc/www/publish/pub/ripencc/mem-services/ttm/Plots/day$ echo
BLA > BLA; ls -l BLA
-rw-r--r--    1 ttraffic wwwgroup        4 Nov 17 11:03 BLA
ttraffic@ceiba:/ncc/www/publish/pub/ripencc/mem-services/ttm/Plots/day$ rm BLA
ttraffic@ceiba:/ncc/www/publish/pub/ripencc/mem-services/ttm/Plots/day$ echo
BLA > tt01.tt02.ps; ls -l tt01.tt02.ps
su: tt01.tt02.ps: No space left on device
/bin/ls: tt01.tt02.ps: No such file or directory

ops, can you have a look at it please ?

[ripe-ttraffic #98623] [ripe.net #86247] Unable to create files in /ncc/www/publish/pub/ripencc/mem-services/ttm/Plots/day