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magicker

Member

Registered: 2019-06-08

Posts: 13

permissions?

HI there

I seem to have a few permissions everytime I try to run anything

[root@15000:/vmfs/volumes/5d9e0b20-a5b36164-5afe-ecf4bbed095c/xsibackup] ./xsibackup --request-key
sh: /vmfs/volumes/5d9e0b20-a5b36164-5afe-ecf4bbed095c/xsibackup/bin/xsilib: Permission denied
2019-11-07T18:51:44 | Error code 1304 at file common.c, line 1304
Error description: could not prune the /vmfs/volumes/5d9e0b20-a5b36164-5afe-ecf4bbed095c/xsibackup/var/log/prog directory
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Can't find error file:
Something went wrong at checking (c)XSIBackup directory structure-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Removed /tmp/xsi dir     OK
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2019-11-07T18:51:44 | Error code 52 at file signal.c, line 52
Error description: can't remove PID file /tmp/xsibackup.pid, error: No such file or directory
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Can't find error file:

I cant even generate a licence key so far.

6.7.0 Update 2 (Build 13006603)

admin

Administrator

Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,055

Re: permissions?

The first and most basic thing you have to do to use a program is to assign execute permissions.
The first three lines in the README file explain you how to do that:

FROM THE README FILE

INSTALLATION

1 - Extract the contents of the .zip package to any persistent path
in your ESXi server, i.e: /scratch/xsi

2 - Change to the installation directory and apply permissions to
the xsibackup file and the bin folder.

    # chmod -R 0700 xsibackup bin

3 - Run xsibackup

    #./xsibackup --help

3 - Generate a new request.key file
   
    #./xsibackup --request-key

magicker

Member

Registered: 2019-06-08

Posts: 13

Re: permissions?

damn it.. read the pdf back to front but missed the readme.txt completely..

sorry for wasting your time