ERROR: logfile path '/tmp/bart-auto.log' is not valid

[MattGorham]

seeing this when attempting to run the bart command as the postgres user,  it works when running as root.

regards

Matt

[Rahul]

Hi Matt,

Could you please share the Bart configuration file to look further into your query.

Please if you can also check the ownership and the permissions on the logfile mentioned as /tmp/bart-auto.log.

[kapil]

Hi MattGorham,

The reason for getting the below error while running the bart command as postgres user is, earlier the bart command was ran as "root" user, so it as created a logfile path with '/tmp/bart-auto.log' and it as root ownership currently, now when you switch it to postgres user and then ran the bart command you will get below error.

ERROR: logfile path '/tmp/bart-auto.log' is not valid

To avoid above issue remove the logfile path i.e, '/tmp/bart-auto.log' which was created with "root" ownership and then run the bart command with postgres user, it will create a logfile path with '/tmp/bart-auto.log' with postgres ownership. 

So any bart command executed from any user it will create a logfile path with '/tmp/bart-auto.log' with that particlular user and it blocks the the bart command to execute from another user.

Hope this helps you.